Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality and Literacy

Hatab presents a new vocabulary for Heidegger’s early phenomenology of being-in-the-world and applies it to the question of language.

Lawrence J. Hatab is Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality (2008), Nietzsche's Life Sentence: Coming to Terms With Eternal Recurrence (2005), Ethics and Finitude: Heideggerian Contributions to Moral Philosophy (2000), A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy: An Experiment in Postmodern Politics (1995) and Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths (1990).

Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Proto-Phenomenology and Language: A Summary of Volume I 1. Proto-Phenomenology and the Lived World 2. The Personal-World 3. The Environing-World 4. The Social-World 5. Projection 6. Temporality 7. Embodiment 8. Disclosure and Interpretation 9. Language 10. Truth and Pluralism Chapter 2: The Child's World 1. Ecstatic Dwelling 2. The Personal-Social-World 3. The Environing-World 4. Affective Attunement 5. Projection 6. Temporality and History 7. Embodiment 8. On the Way to Language Chapter 3: Language Acquisition 1. Natural Language 2. The Phenomenological Priority of Language 3. Language Learning and Dwelling 4. The Personal-Social-World 5. Embodiment and the Environing-World 6. Temporality and History 7. Differential Fitness, Development, and Truth 8. Summary Chapter 4: Orality and Literacy 1. Oral and Written Language: Two Different Worlds? 2. The Alphabet and Learning How to Read and Write 3. Orality in Ancient Greece 4. Elements o