Thrownness, attunement, attention : a Heideggerian account of responsibility

This thesis argues that Heidegger’s existential analytic of human existence challenges the traditional understanding of responsibility as lying in the power or mastery of the subject. In contrast to secondary literature that attempts to read Heidegger as showing that we take responsibility through s...

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Main Author: Cowles, Darshan
Published: University of Essex 2018
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.732644