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Book Reviews BOOK REVIEWS Carman, T. (2003). Heidegger’s Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse, and Authenticity in Being and Time. NY: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-82045-6, 328 pp., $60.00 (cloth). Reviewed by Richard Rojcewicz, Point Park College This is, in many respects, a refreshing book. It is clear and straightforward and closely- reasoned. While it does at times, especially in later chapters, become bogged down in Heideggerian jargon, it is a throwback to the days before deconstructionistic oblique- ness became the rage. Carman is obviously a competent scholar in Heidegger, sym- pathetic but not uncritical, and he has something to say and says it, with clarity and even with elegance. Ultimately, however, readers of this Journal are likely to find the book unsatisfying. The main problem is that the author approaches Heidegger exclusively from the view- point of analytic philosophy. Consequently, Heidegger is here placed in a straight- jacket. All philosophers deserve to be understood in their own terms, and all—perhaps especially Heidegger—are misrepresented if a foreign viewpoint is foisted on them. Even if Heidegger can be brought before the tribunal of analytic philosophy and can vindicate himself there, ultimately it is only the outer edge of his thinking that is thereby revealed, not http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Phenomenological Psychology Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0047-2662
eISSN
1569-1624
DOI
10.1163/1569162042321134
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BOOK REVIEWS Carman, T. (2003). Heidegger’s Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse, and Authenticity in Being and Time. NY: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-82045-6, 328 pp., $60.00 (cloth). Reviewed by Richard Rojcewicz, Point Park College This is, in many respects, a refreshing book. It is clear and straightforward and closely- reasoned. While it does at times, especially in later chapters, become bogged down in Heideggerian jargon, it is a throwback to the days before deconstructionistic oblique- ness became the rage. Carman is obviously a competent scholar in Heidegger, sym- pathetic but not uncritical, and he has something to say and says it, with clarity and even with elegance. Ultimately, however, readers of this Journal are likely to find the book unsatisfying. The main problem is that the author approaches Heidegger exclusively from the view- point of analytic philosophy. Consequently, Heidegger is here placed in a straight- jacket. All philosophers deserve to be understood in their own terms, and all—perhaps especially Heidegger—are misrepresented if a foreign viewpoint is foisted on them. Even if Heidegger can be brought before the tribunal of analytic philosophy and can vindicate himself there, ultimately it is only the outer edge of his thinking that is thereby revealed, not

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Journal of Phenomenological PsychologyBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2004

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