This book employs Heidegger's work of the 1920s and early 1930s to develop distinctively Heideggerian accounts of agency, freedom, and responsibility, making the case that Heidegger's thought provides a compelling alternative to the mainstream philosophical accounts of these concepts.

• Agency, Freedom, and Responsibility in the Early Heidegger
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations for Heidegger’s Works
  • Introduction
  • 1 A Heideggerian Theory of Motivation
  • 2 The Heideggerian Argument against Causal Theories of Action
  • 3 The Role of Deliberation in Heideggerian Agency
  • 4 Heideggerian Freedom and the Free Will Debate
  • 5 Heideggerian Responsibility—Responsibility as Responsiveness
  • 6 Concluding Thoughts
  • Bibliography
  • Index