From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity Heidegger’s Anyone and Contemporary Social Theory

“The collection includes original papers by established figures such as Hans Bernhard Schmid (Vienna), Mark A. Wrathall (Oxford), Dieter Thomä (St. Gallen), and Kevin Thompson (DePaul), as well as by a range of emerging scholars. … it is an excellent and timely collection, bringing renewed interpretative vigor to key sections of Heidegger's classic.” (Dermot Moran, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, July, 2018)

Hans Bernhard Schmid is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He received his PhD (1998) and Habilitation (2005) from the University of Basel. His main research interests are Philosophy of Social Science, Social Ontology, Action Theory, Social and Sociological Theory, History of Philosophy (esp. Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy). He is the author of Subjekt, System, Diskurs: Edmund Husserls Begriff transzendentaler Subjektivität in sozialtheoretischen Bezügen (2000), Wir-Intentionalität: Kritik des ontologischen Individualismus und Rekonstruktion der Gemeinschaft (2005), Plural Action (2009), and Moralische Integrität: Kritik eines Konstrukts (2011).



Gerhard Thonhauser studied philosophy and political science at the University of Vienna and Copenhagen University. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Vienna in 2015. He was the recipient of a DOC-fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2011-2012. His mainresearch interests are Phenomenology, Existential Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and Social Ontology. He is the author of Über das Konzept der Zeitlichkeit bei Søren Kierkegaard mit ständigem Hinblick auf Martin Heidegger (2011) and Ein rätselhaftes Zeichen. Zum Verhältnis von Martin Heidegger und Søren Kierkegaard (2016), and the editor of Perspektiven mit Heidegger (2017).