Identity Authenticity and Humility

Daniel O. Dahlstrom

9780874621914

144 pages

Marquette University Press

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Overview

An elaboration and defense of an account of the experience of self-identity that underwrites the possibility of authenticity (being true to oneself), only accessible with humility.

Author Bio

Dr. Daniel O. Dahlstrom is currently the John R. Silber Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. Before coming to Boston University Dr. Dahlstrom taught at Santa Clara University and Catholic University of America. He has held visiting appointments at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the University of Luxembourg. In addition to producing translations of major works by Moses Mendelssohn, Friedrich Schiller, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Feuerbach, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger, Dr. Dahlstrom has edited eighteen collections of essays, including Interpreting Heidegger in 2011. His books include Das logische Vorurteil (Passagen, 1994), Heidegger’s Concept of Truth (Cambridge, 2001), Philosophical Legacies (CUA press, 2008), and The Heidegger Dictionary (Bloomsbury, 2013).