Works by Leslie Macavoy
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- Formal Indication and the Hermeneutics of Facticity.Leslie MacAvoy -2010 -Philosophy Today 54 (Supplement):84-90.No categories
- Heidegger, Dreyfus, and the Intelligibility of Practical Comportment.Leslie A. MacAvoy -2019 -Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 50 (1):68-86.ABSTRACTMost scholars agree that meaning and intelligibility are central to Heidegger’s account of Dasein and Being-in-the-world, but there is some confusion about the nature of this intelligibility. In his debate with McDowell, Dreyfus draws on phenomenologists like Heidegger to argue that there are two kinds of intelligibility: a basic, nonconceptual, practical intelligibility found in practical comportment and a conceptual, discursive intelligibility. I explore two possible ways that Dreyfus might ground this twofold account of intelligibility in Heidegger: first in the distinction (...) between the hermeneutic and apophantic “as”, and second in the presence and absence of the as-structure. I argue that neither approach succeeds because practical intelligibility is always already discursive and discursive articulation is a condition of practical comportment. (shrink)
- Heidegger on Being Self-Concealing, by Katherine Withy.Leslie Macavoy -2023 -Mind 134 (533):233-240._ Heidegger on Being Self-Concealing _, by WithyKatherine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 192.No categories
- Heidegger on Being Self-Concealing.Leslie Macavoy -forthcoming -Mind:fzad022.Often we frame our learning about or discovery of things and indeed the very existence of those things in terms of unconcealment, as when we say that something.
- The Heideggerian bias toward death: A critique of the role of being-towards-death in the disclosure of human finitude.Leslie Macavoy -1996 -Metaphilosophy 27 (1-2):63-77.In this paper I take issue with Heidegger's use of the concept of death as a means of disclosing human finitude. I argue that Being‐towards‐death is inadequate to the disclosure of Dasein's thrownness which is necessary for the kind of authentic historizing that Heidegger describes and furthermore leads to a reading of authenticity which is preclusive of Being‐with‐Others, I suggest that this difficulty may be alleviated through increased attention to the opposite boundary of Dasein's existence, namely its birth. Although I (...) do not pursue the project here of conducting a phenomenology of birth, I suggest some directions for proceeding with that task, and I illustrate that a greater emphasis on Dasein's beginning will increase the richness of our understanding of our Being‐with‐Others. (shrink)
- Overturning cartesianism and the hermeneutics of suspicion: Rethinking Dreyfus on Heidegger.Leslie MacAvoy -2001 -Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 44 (4):455 – 480.This essay critically engages Dreyfus's widely read interpretation of Heidegger's Being and Time . It argues that Dreyfus's reading is rooted in two primary claims or interpretative principles. The first - the Cartesianism thesis - indicates that Heidegger's objective in Being and Time is to overturn Cartesianism. The second - the hermeneutics of suspicion thesis - claims that Division II is supposed to suspect and throw into question the results of the Division I analysis. These theses contribute to the view (...) that there are two conflicting accounts of inauthenticity that threaten the coherence of Heidegger's notion of authenticity. This view concerning authenticity is mistaken, as are the two theses that support it. The first thesis is incorrect because Heidegger's explicit aim is to investigate the question of the meaning of being not to overturn Cartesianism. The second is incorrect because the analyses of Division I describe the structures of everyday human existence in preparation for a closer examination in Division II of what makes them possible. Division II does not undercut Division I; it carries the analysis deeper. Authenticity, then, is not a negation of everydayness; it is a deepening of the self-understanding expressed in everydayness. (shrink)
- Thinking through singularity and universality in Levinas.Leslie MacAvoy -2003 -Philosophy Today 47 (5):147-153.
- Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship (review).Leslie Macavoy -2003 -Journal of Speculative Philosophy 17 (2):144-147.
- Dasein's Fulfillment: The Intentionality of Authenticity.Leslie MacAvoy -unknownThe existential analytic of Being and Time is set within the frame of the Seinsfrage. This question arises for Heidegger out of his critical engagement with Husserl's phenomenology. More careful attention to Heidegger's project as a phenomenological one reveals that Dasein, the entity who asks the Seinsfrage and who always has a pre-ontological understanding of Being, is also intentional. Dasein's existentiality is an intentionality. I will argue that inauthenticity and authenticity may be fruitfully understood in terms of the phenomenological notions (...) of empty intention and intentional fulfillment, respectively. Such an approach opens up the possibility of understanding Dasein's subjectivity in a way which challenges more traditional existentialist and voluntarist interpretations. (shrink)
- Heidegger and Husserl.Leslie MacAvoy -2013 - In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson,The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 135.No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - Heidegger's Anglo-american reception.Leslie MacAvoy -2013 - In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson,The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 425.Export citation Bookmark
- Leaping Ahead: Feminist Theory without Metaphysics.Leslie A. MacAvoy -1999 - In Emanuela Bianchi,Is feminist philosophy philosophy? Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press. pp. 221.
- Levinas and the Possibility of History.Leslie MacAvoy -2005 -Philosophy Today 49 (Supplement):68-73.
- Meaning, categories and subjectivity in the early Heidegger.Leslie MacAvoy -2005 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 31 (1):21-35.It has been suggested recently that Heidegger’s philosophy entails a linguistic idealism because it is committed to the thesis that meaning determines reference. I argue that a careful consideration of the relationship between meaning and signification in Heidegger’s work does not support the strong sense of determination required by this thesis. By examining Heidegger’s development of Husserl’s phenomenology, I show that discourse involves a logic that articulates meaning into significations. Further analysis of Heidegger’s phenomenological method at work shows that while (...) meaning serves as a condition of possibility of signification in the sense that all possibilities for a term’s signification are latent in the meaning of that term, meaning under-determines signification and hence reference. Key Words: discourse • language • linguistic idealism • logic • meaning • phenomenology • signification. (shrink)
- On the Unity of Intelligibility in Heidegger.Leslie A. MacAvoy -2011 -Philosophy Today 55 (Supplement):169-176.
- Truth and evidence in Descartes and Levinas.Leslie MacAvoy -2005 - In Stephen H. Daniel,Current continental theory and modern philosophy. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press.
- The Ambiguity of Facticity in Heidegger’s Early Work.Leslie MacAvoy -2013 -Comparative and Continental Philosophy 5 (1):99-106.The Early Heidegger’s Philosophy of Life: Facticity, Being and Language offers an interpretation of Heidegger’s concept of facticity as it is articulated in connection with the ideas of life and language in the lecture courses from 1919225. The book argues that facticity is both the source of vitality for theory and a source of deception and falsehood and therefore cannot be viewed in either positive or negative terms exclusively, but must instead be viewed as ambiguous. This essay argues that this (...) basic thesis is correct and is supported by drawing a distinction between everydayness and inauthenticity. It is also argued that the analysis of language the book offers can be useful in clearing up misunderstandings of Heidegger’s concept of discourse in Being and Time. (shrink)
- Heidegger and Husserl.Leslie MacAvoy -2013 - In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson,The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 135.
- Infectious Nietzsche David Farrell Krell Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996, xviii + 281 pp. [REVIEW]Leslie MacAvoy -1999 -Dialogue 38 (1):194-.Infectious Nietzsche is a collection of twelve provocative essays written by Krell during the years 1969-94. This fact accounts for the somewhat fragmentary texture of the work, but each piece adds another dimension to what Krell refers to as his interpretation of Nietzsche's "descensional" thinking, and, in this regard, they remain remarkably well coordinated.
- Review of Joshua James Shaw,Emmanuel Levinas on the Priority of Ethics: Putting Ethics First. [REVIEW]Leslie MacAvoy -2009 -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (9).
- Review of Michael Lewis,Heidegger and the Place of Ethics. [REVIEW]Leslie MacAvoy -2006 -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (1).
- Steven Crowell, Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger. [REVIEW]Leslie MacAvoy -2014 -Philosophy in Review 34 (3-4):136-138.
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