#booktok #philosophy #literature #literarytheory #hermeneutics #heidegger Professor Timothy H. Wilson Department of English, University of Ottawa ENG 3375 -- Contemporary Literary Theory Week 7 An introduction to Heidegger's "Destruktion" of the History of Ontology as presented in Section 6 of Being and Time. The nature of Dasein's "falling prey" to the tradition is discussed in relation to the oblivion of Being. Heidegger's Destruktions of Immanuel Kant, Rene Descartes and Aristotle are discussed. Finally, the lecture discusses the legacy of Heidegger's method of Destruktion in the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Leo Strauss and Jacques Derrida. Powerpoint slides for this lecture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1CTMDASH3Lg25lA5pc5A_b156tz_uNW/view?usp=sharing Course Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/untergehenproject/courses/contemporary-literary-theory-2025-26 0:00 - Introduction 0:25 - What is "Destruktion"? 1:10 - The Original Plan of Being and Time 2:42 - Destruktion and the Forgetting of the Question of Being 5:05 - Temporality and Historicality 7:48 - Fallenness and the Tradition 16:07 - Going Back Through the Tradition: Kant, Descartes and Aristotle 22:12 - The Legacy of Destruktion: Hans-Georg Gadamer, Leo Strauss, Jacques Derrida 23:15 - Hans-Georg Gadamer: Dialogue and the Tradition 24:20 - Leo Strauss: Esoteric Reading of the Tradition 26:49 - Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction 27:44 - Summary: The Three Paths of Destruktion Related Videos: https://youtu.be/jWps2AkdcfE?si=gLIZ45QkFWMgJmuS (Literary Theory) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHwZl6kC5zs&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V5cobHCvVQWiH63dR5z6Ml&index=2&pp=iAQBsAgC (History of Theory) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuU_CexrjHA&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4V5cobHCvVQWiH63dR5z6 Ml&index=9&pp=iAQBsAgC (Saussure) https://youtu.be/2RsoS2917N0?si=VMRO9pyG7s2bZx3 (LS and the Three Waves) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux4EVsurjKE&list=PLVnV4NOfHN4WUnr4dTHgcsrH29_ZeTtNd&index=3&t=1564s&pp=iAQBsAgC (Second Wave) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Ok4Dc0154 (Marx) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ_0v8CRlhQ (Hermeneutics) https://youtu.be/STrXSANPWE8 (Heidegger) Detailed Lecture Notes on Heidegger: Martin Heidegger (1889-1976): An Introduction: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZMYrICl7XGkd_hX1f336jah-_D2J2rFb/view?usp=sharing Heidegger's Being and Time (1927): An Introduction: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-EvkUjrQfGa6nQnxjs-G2zZvO2cjtd1s/view?usp=drive_link Martin Heidegger on Modern Science: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ehWDYDras8WipX-M7wmqMECTL6Y7MKX/view?usp=drive_link Heidegger’s “On the Essence of Truth”: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qHEpxxur5_z3DiWGuBnDr1Eg8OAKhstn/view?usp=sharing Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art”: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QwroB0lanYa3rD-Pwu2H20zh9Ri1sJ7X/view?usp=sharing Heidegger’s Deconstruction of Plato: “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth”: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o4Y2t0c42OXicT0E564nlW5BSTo22ObS/view?usp=sharing Heidegger’s “The Question Concerning Technology”: https://drive.google.com/file/d/186CKil0U8y-R7FqXRmwCh_lb87VjAhsb/view?usp=drive_link