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Heidegger and ethics

Heidegger denied that his enquiries were concerned with ethics. Heidegger and

Ethics questions this self-understanding and reveals a form of ethics in Heidegger’s

thinking that is central to his understanding of metaphysics and philosophy.

In our technological age, metaphysics has, according to Heidegger, become real-

ity; philosophy has come to an end. Joanna Hodge argues that there has been a

concomitant transformation of ethics that Heidegger has failed to identify. Today,

technological relationships form the ethical relations in which humans find them-

selves. As a result, ethics is cut loose from abstract universal moral standards, and

the end of philosophy announced by Heidegger turns out to be an interminable

interruption of the metaphysical will to completion. In order to realise the produc-

tive potential of this interruption, the repressed ethical element in Heidegger’s think-

ing must be retrieved.

Discussing the relations in Heidegger’s thought between humanism and nihil-

ism, between anthropology and homecoming, and between history and violence,

Heidegger and Ethics reconstructs the ethical dimension of his work and offers

new insights into the role of ethical enquiry in current philosophy.

Joanna Hodge is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Philosophy at

Manchester Metropolitan University.

Heidegger and ethics

Joanna Hodge

London and New York

First published 1995

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.

form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,

including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage and retrieval system,

without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Hodge, Joanna, 1953–

Heidegger and ethics/Joanna Hodge.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976. 2. Ethics, Modern – 20th century.

I. Title.

B3279.H49H5 1994

171´.2 – dc20

94–10240

CIP

ISBN 0-415-03288-1 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-09650-2 (pbk)

ISBN 0-203-00415-9 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-17429-1 (Glassbook Format)

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