Background
Zimmerman, Michael Edward was born on July 7, 1946 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Harry McGoodwin and Evelyn Elizabeth (Johnson) Zimmerman.
( Although it is sometimes said that Martin Heidegger’s l...)
Although it is sometimes said that Martin Heidegger’s later philosophy no longer concerned itself with the theme of authenticity so crucial to Being and Time (1927), this book argues that his interest in authenticity was always strong. After leaving the seminary to become a philosophy student, Heidegger began to “de–mythologize” religious themes for his own philosophical purposes. Like the Christian notion of faith, Heidegger’s notion of authenticity involves relinquishing the egotistical self–understanding which blocks our openness for possibilities. Yet authenticity as “resoluteness” includes an element of voluntarism foreign to the idea of faith. Heidegger’s brief engagement with National Socialism (1933–1934) helped him to re–think the Nietzschean concept of will which had influenced his early views on authenticity. Although part of the meaning of resoluteness is to allow things to be revealed, it also suggests that an individual can somehow will to be authentic. After about 1936, Heidegger emphasized that an individual can only be released from egoism (inauthenticity) by a power which transcends him. The abiding theological issue concerning the efficacy of works as against the saving power of grace finds expression in the distinction between resoluteness and releasement.
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philosophy educator and author
Zimmerman, Michael Edward was born on July 7, 1946 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Harry McGoodwin and Evelyn Elizabeth (Johnson) Zimmerman.
Bachelor, Louisiana State University, 1968. Master of Arts, Tulane University, l, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, Tulane University, 1974.
After a year as Assistant Professor at Denison University, he was Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University from 1975 to 2005, and Director of the Institute for Humanities and the Arts at Tulane. He is also affiliated with the Integral Institute. Together with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, he wrote a book on integral ecology, Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World.
Since 2006, Zimmerman has been a faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Zimmerman is a specialist on Heidegger and has published a number of books and peer-reviewed articles on his work, and on other conventional philosophical topics. educated educated
( Although it is sometimes said that Martin Heidegger’s l...)
Member National Resource Defense Council, Greenpeace, Search for Common Ground, Union of Concerned Scientists, Sierra Club. Member American Philosophical Association, Heidegger Conference, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.
Married T. Babs Green, August 24, 1968 (divorced May 1978). Married Teresa Andrea Toulouse, November 22, 1994.