A Phenomenological Critique of Irene McMullin's Formulation of Heideggerian Temporality

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dc.contributor.advisorCrowell, Stevenen_US
dc.creatorBarton, Jasonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-29T00:42:05Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-03-29T00:42:05Zen_US
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper aims at differentiating Martin Heidegger’s phenomenological ontology from Emmanuel Levinas’s phenomenological ethics on the experiential level of encountering otherness. In addition to drawing from each author’s seminal texts, I will contextualize the disagreement between Heidegger and Levinas to Irene McMullin’s Time and the Shared World: Heidegger on Social Relations. McMullin, in her response to Jean-Paul Sartre’s criticism of Heidegger’s ontology, provides a formulation of Heideggerian temporality that markedly deviates from Heideggerian ontological commitments in Being and Time. I present and develop two deviations: (a) McMullin positions Dasein’s original encounter with the Other before the establishment of Dasein’s ontological structures (i.e., Being-in-the-world and Being-with-others) and (b) McMullin attributes Dasein’s inauthenticity to the Other’s limitation of Dasein’s temporalization of Being. I contend that both deviations correspond with Levinas’s phenomenology of temporality more than Heidegger’s phenomenology of temporality. It is through McMullin’s deviations, therefore, that distinctions can be drawn between Heidegger’s ontological articulation of Being-guilty, the call of conscience, Being-towards-death, and Angst on one hand and Levinas’s metaphysical articulation of conscience, shame, and death on the other.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationBarton, Jason. "A Phenomenological Critique of Irene McMullin's Formulation of Heideggerian Temporality." Undergraduate thesis, Rice University, 2019. https://doi.org/10.25611/2qkw-am16.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/2qkw-am16en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/105261en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRice Universityen_US
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dc.subjectSocial Ontologyen_US
dc.subjectTranscendental Phenomenologyen_US
dc.subjectMartin Heideggeren_US
dc.subjectEmmanuel Levinasen_US
dc.subjectTemporalityen_US
dc.titleA Phenomenological Critique of Irene McMullin's Formulation of Heideggerian Temporalityen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
thesis.degree.departmentPhilosophyen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelUndergraduateen_US
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