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Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender

Thinking the Unthought

Edited by Patricia Glazebrook and Susanne Claxton

Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender takes Heidegger to task on gender by assessing his views on women as thinkers and exploring what his work offers to contemporary LGBTQ+ and women’s studies. Scholars come together whose Heidegger research engages bioethics, pregnancy, motherhood and maternal Dasein; whether Dasein can be gender neutral or non-binary, and what it means when ‘neutrality’ and gender are defined by patriarchy rather than the spectrum of lived genders; the question of human capacity for transcendence in the immanence of flesh; and the possibility of re-imaging Dasein as gendered, i.e., born into embodiment and bound to memory, and the capacity to create new futures by transitioning the present as it slips into history. Authors ask who and what, including animals, can be Dasein and bring Heidegger to issues of sexual abuse and violence, men’s experience when thrust into women’s daily (and not so daily) routine, and the intersection of queerness and death. The book aims not to provide final answers, but to open possibilities for further thinking with, on, against, through and because of Heidegger.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 258 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-5381-9863-6 • Hardback • December 2024 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-5381-9865-0 • eBook • October 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Series: New Heidegger Research
Subjects: Philosophy / Individual Philosophers, Philosophy / Gender Philosophy, Philosophy / Ethics / Bioethics, Philosophy / Movements / Existentialism, Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology

Tricia Glazebrook is professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs and affiliate professor in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Washington State University.

Susanne Claxton is instructor of philosophy at Southern New Hampshire University and Santa Fe Community College.

Acknowledgements

Tricia Glazebrook

Editor’s Introduction

Susanne Claxton

Chapter 1. Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender in a non-binary Epoch

Tricia Glazebrook

Chapter 2. In Defense of Dasein’s Neutrality

William McNeill

Chapter 3. Antigone’s (Poetic, Queer) Death: Heidegger, Butler, and Mortality

Katherine Davies

Chapter 4. The Im-Passability of Transition: Heidegger and Transgender Discourse

Rylie Johnson

Chapter 5. Maternal Dasein: Ruddick and Heidegger on “Authentic Mothering”

Dana S. Belu

Chapter 6. Dasein and the Experience of Pregnancy: Contemplating Becoming-With, Attunement and Temporality with and beyond Heidegger

Marjolein Oele

Chapter 7. The Ontogenesis of Human Beings and an Ethics of Re/membering

Róisín Lally

Chapter 8. “This is what it’s like for some women all the time”: Phenomenological Reflections of a White Male during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Casey Rentmeester

Chapter 9. Problem: What is Woman? The Hermeneutics of Sex/Gender Facticity

Jill Drouillard

Chapter 10. Da-Sein’s Pronouns

Babette Babich

Chapter 11. Queering Heidegger: An Applied Ontology

E. Das Janssen

About the Contributors

Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender presents important, original arguments about Heidegger’s phenomenology, offering an impressive lineup of scholars and perspectives taking up pressing topics in contemporary life. Heidegger’s early claim that Dasein is neutral with respect to sex and gender, together with Dasein's transcendence of factual designations, opens pathways beyond reductive and binary conceptions of human identity. Highly recommended.


— Lawrence Hatab, Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Philosophy, Old Dominion University


A brilliant collection of groundbreaking studies on gender and Heidegger, featuring work by eleven current Heidegger scholars. This is a must have book for thinking through topics of gender, transness, queerness, motherhood, and race in Heidegger.


— John M. Rose, professor emeritus, Goucher College


In staging encounters between Heidegger and feminist philosophy, transgender studies, and queer theory, this excellent collection reveals new dimensions of Heidegger’s thought and offers new insights about gender. Critical interpretation and creative reappropriation of Heidegger unsettle binary and naturalizing thinking and generate rich meditations on pregnancy, motherhood, selfhood, and sociality.


— Jeffrey D. Gower, Wabash College


As the insightful essays of this book demonstrate, Dasein is not male or female at the core of its being. Always already thrown into a gendered world, we typically fall into binarity (along with the other oppressions reactively reinforcing their pretensions to be natural), but we can also undergo an existential death whereby we rediscover Dasein’s original polysexual potency and thereby disclose more authentic ways of embracing the ontological diversity of existence. Such transitions are existential rebirths that can embody and disseminate freer and more livable ways of being, helping lead us beyond the nihilistic metaphysics of late modernity.


— Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico, author of Heidegger on Ontotheology; Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity; Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger; and Heidegger on the Danger and Promise of Technology


Claxton and Glazebrook have orchestrated a timely interrogation of the unthought in Heidegger’s corpus with respect to gender, challenging the conception of Dasein as gender neutral. Drawing on the full range of Heidegger’s texts, original contributions by leading scholars make the phenomenological dimensions of gender, sexuality, transgender identities, the woman, maternal Dasein, and being-toward-birth visible in ways that illuminate new paths of questioning Dasein’s being-in-the-world.


— David Pettigrew, CSU Professor and chair, philosophy department, Southern Connecticut State University


Phenomenology's future is inextricably tied to its ability to engage with questions of sex, gender, sexuality and race, e.g. with issues of embodiment. For this reason, Claxton and Glazebrook have created a volume that is centrally important to the future of phenomenology. This is especially true of Chapter 4 and its engagement with transgender identities which brilliantly expands and deepens the ability of phenomenology to investigate this vital topic. We are lucky to have these timely and essential explorations.


— William Koch, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York


Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender

Thinking the Unthought

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  • Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender takes Heidegger to task on gender by assessing his views on women as thinkers and exploring what his work offers to contemporary LGBTQ+ and women’s studies. Scholars come together whose Heidegger research engages bioethics, pregnancy, motherhood and maternal Dasein; whether Dasein can be gender neutral or non-binary, and what it means when ‘neutrality’ and gender are defined by patriarchy rather than the spectrum of lived genders; the question of human capacity for transcendence in the immanence of flesh; and the possibility of re-imaging Dasein as gendered, i.e., born into embodiment and bound to memory, and the capacity to create new futures by transitioning the present as it slips into history. Authors ask who and what, including animals, can be Dasein and bring Heidegger to issues of sexual abuse and violence, men’s experience when thrust into women’s daily (and not so daily) routine, and the intersection of queerness and death. The book aims not to provide final answers, but to open possibilities for further thinking with, on, against, through and because of Heidegger.

Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 258 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
    978-1-5381-9863-6 • Hardback • December 2024 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
    978-1-5381-9865-0 • eBook • October 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Series: New Heidegger Research
    Subjects: Philosophy / Individual Philosophers, Philosophy / Gender Philosophy, Philosophy / Ethics / Bioethics, Philosophy / Movements / Existentialism, Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology
Author
Author
  • Tricia Glazebrook is professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs and affiliate professor in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Washington State University.

    Susanne Claxton is instructor of philosophy at Southern New Hampshire University and Santa Fe Community College.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements

    Tricia Glazebrook

    Editor’s Introduction

    Susanne Claxton

    Chapter 1. Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender in a non-binary Epoch

    Tricia Glazebrook

    Chapter 2. In Defense of Dasein’s Neutrality

    William McNeill

    Chapter 3. Antigone’s (Poetic, Queer) Death: Heidegger, Butler, and Mortality

    Katherine Davies

    Chapter 4. The Im-Passability of Transition: Heidegger and Transgender Discourse

    Rylie Johnson

    Chapter 5. Maternal Dasein: Ruddick and Heidegger on “Authentic Mothering”

    Dana S. Belu

    Chapter 6. Dasein and the Experience of Pregnancy: Contemplating Becoming-With, Attunement and Temporality with and beyond Heidegger

    Marjolein Oele

    Chapter 7. The Ontogenesis of Human Beings and an Ethics of Re/membering

    Róisín Lally

    Chapter 8. “This is what it’s like for some women all the time”: Phenomenological Reflections of a White Male during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Casey Rentmeester

    Chapter 9. Problem: What is Woman? The Hermeneutics of Sex/Gender Facticity

    Jill Drouillard

    Chapter 10. Da-Sein’s Pronouns

    Babette Babich

    Chapter 11. Queering Heidegger: An Applied Ontology

    E. Das Janssen

    About the Contributors

Reviews
Reviews
  • Heidegger, Dasein, and Gender presents important, original arguments about Heidegger’s phenomenology, offering an impressive lineup of scholars and perspectives taking up pressing topics in contemporary life. Heidegger’s early claim that Dasein is neutral with respect to sex and gender, together with Dasein's transcendence of factual designations, opens pathways beyond reductive and binary conceptions of human identity. Highly recommended.


    — Lawrence Hatab, Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Philosophy, Old Dominion University


    A brilliant collection of groundbreaking studies on gender and Heidegger, featuring work by eleven current Heidegger scholars. This is a must have book for thinking through topics of gender, transness, queerness, motherhood, and race in Heidegger.


    — John M. Rose, professor emeritus, Goucher College


    In staging encounters between Heidegger and feminist philosophy, transgender studies, and queer theory, this excellent collection reveals new dimensions of Heidegger’s thought and offers new insights about gender. Critical interpretation and creative reappropriation of Heidegger unsettle binary and naturalizing thinking and generate rich meditations on pregnancy, motherhood, selfhood, and sociality.


    — Jeffrey D. Gower, Wabash College


    As the insightful essays of this book demonstrate, Dasein is not male or female at the core of its being. Always already thrown into a gendered world, we typically fall into binarity (along with the other oppressions reactively reinforcing their pretensions to be natural), but we can also undergo an existential death whereby we rediscover Dasein’s original polysexual potency and thereby disclose more authentic ways of embracing the ontological diversity of existence. Such transitions are existential rebirths that can embody and disseminate freer and more livable ways of being, helping lead us beyond the nihilistic metaphysics of late modernity.


    — Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico, author of Heidegger on Ontotheology; Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity; Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger; and Heidegger on the Danger and Promise of Technology


    Claxton and Glazebrook have orchestrated a timely interrogation of the unthought in Heidegger’s corpus with respect to gender, challenging the conception of Dasein as gender neutral. Drawing on the full range of Heidegger’s texts, original contributions by leading scholars make the phenomenological dimensions of gender, sexuality, transgender identities, the woman, maternal Dasein, and being-toward-birth visible in ways that illuminate new paths of questioning Dasein’s being-in-the-world.


    — David Pettigrew, CSU Professor and chair, philosophy department, Southern Connecticut State University


    Phenomenology's future is inextricably tied to its ability to engage with questions of sex, gender, sexuality and race, e.g. with issues of embodiment. For this reason, Claxton and Glazebrook have created a volume that is centrally important to the future of phenomenology. This is especially true of Chapter 4 and its engagement with transgender identities which brilliantly expands and deepens the ability of phenomenology to investigate this vital topic. We are lucky to have these timely and essential explorations.


    — William Koch, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York


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