Books by Martin Heidegger
Nietzsche: Vols. 3 and 4 (Vol. 3: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics; Vol. 4: Nihilism)
by Martin Heidegger, David Farrell Krell
A landmark discussion between two great thinkers--the second (combining volumes III and IV) of two volumes inquiring into the central issues of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy.
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The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
As relevant now as ever before, this accessible collection is an essential landmark in the philosophy of science from "one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century" (New York Times).
The advent of machine technology has given rise to some of the deepest problems of modern thought. Featuring the celebrated essay "The Question Concerning Technology," this prescient volume contains Martin Heidegger's groundbreaking investigation into the pervasive "enframing" character of our understanding of ourselves and the world.
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Being and Time (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
“Being and Time changed the course of philosophy.” —Richard Rorty, New York Times Book Review
“Heidegger’s masterwork.” —The Economist
"What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. This first paperback edition of John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson's definitive translation also features a foreword by Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman.
A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism—as well as existentialism and much of postmodern thought—Being and Time forever changed the intellectual map of the modern world. As Richard Rorty wrote in the New York Times Book Review, "You cannot read most of the important thinkers of recent times without taking Heidegger's thought into account."
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Being and Time: A Translation of Sein und Zeit (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
A new, definitive translation of Heidegger's most important work.
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Being and Time: A Revised Edition of the Stambaugh Translation (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
A revised translation of Heidegger’s most important work.
The publication in 1927 of Martin Heidegger’s magnum opus signaled an intellectual event of the first order and had an impact in fields far beyond that of philosophy proper. Being and Timehas long been recognized as a landmark work of the twentieth century for its original analyses of the character of philosophic inquiry and the relation of the possibility of such inquiry to the human situation. Still provocative and much disputed, Heidegger’s text has been taken as the inspiration for a variety of innovative movements in fields ranging from psychoanalysis, literary theory, and existentialism to ethics, hermeneutics, and theology. A work that disturbs the traditions of philosophizing that it inherits, Being and Time raises questions about the end of philosophy and the possibilities for thinking liberated from the presumptions of metaphysics.
The Stambaugh translation captures the vitality of the language and thinking animating Heidegger’s original text. It is also the most comprehensive edition insofar as it includes the marginal notes made by Heidegger in his own copy of Being and Time, and takes into account the many changes that he made in the final German edition of 1976. The revisions to the original translation correct ambiguities and problems that have become apparent since the translation first appeared. Bracketed German words have also been liberally inserted both to clarify and highlight words and connections that are difficult to translate, and to link this translation more closely to the German text. This definitive edition will serve the needs of scholars well acquainted with Heidegger’s work and of students approaching Heidegger for the first time.
Praise for the original edition
“Stambaugh’s new version has large virtues, and improves on the only alternative … [It] is best suited to beginning or general audiences … These will find its spare and unobtrusive apparatus, which lets the text stand out more simply on its own and not bristling with flagged complications, a decisive virtue … As a supplement or for comparison, or as a vehicle for reacquainting oneself with the work, it gives excellent service.” — TLS
“This new translation … offers the text in a more precise and understandable English than earlier editions.” — Library Journal
“Stambaugh’s greatest merit as a translator is her ability to render the most difficult of Heidegger’s prose … into an English that remains both elegant and as faithful as possible to the original … The bilingual glossary and index in the back are marvelously helpful … Any translation of Sein und Zeit cannot help being a welcome contribution, even a significant landmark, within the world of Heidegger scholarship.” — MLN
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Gesamtausgabe. 4 Abteilungen / Überlegungen XII - XV: (Schwarze Hefte 1939-1941) (Martin Heidegger Gesamtausgabe) (German Edition)
Die von Heidegger sogenannten Schwarzen Hefte bilden ein in der deutschen Geistesgeschichte nicht nur des letzten Jahrhunderts einzigartiges Manuskript. Von 1931 bis zum Anfang der siebziger Jahre zeichnet Heidegger in vierunddreissig Wachstuchheften Gedanken und Gedankengef|ge auf. Zuweilen - wie in den Überlegungen (GA 94-96) der dreissiger Jahre - stellen sie eine unmittelbare Auseinandersetzung mit der Zeit dar. Dann - wie in den Vier Heften (GA 99) vom Ende der vierziger Jahre - erweisen sie sich als philosophische Versuche, so dass die Schwarzen Hefte sich am ehesten als Denktageb|cher bezeichnen lassen. Weil die Aufzeichnungen sich immer wieder der Nähe der Tagesereignisse aussetzen, zeigen sie sich in einem unverwechselbaren Stil. In den Schwarzen Heften scheint der Leser dem Denker so nah zu sein wie sonst nie. Er kann sp|ren, wie sehr sich das Denken auf sein Gedachtes einlässt. Das bringt mit sich, dass die Schwarzen Hefte, wie kein anderes Manuskript des ohnehin leidenschaftlich diskutierten Denkers, umstritten sein werden. Die Härte der Auseinandersetzung mit zeitgeschichtlichen Vorgängen wird mitunter dem Besprochenen nicht gerecht. Manche Hefte enthalten in vielerlei Hinsicht Problematisches. Dann wieder trifft der Angriff das Richtige. Alles gehört zum Eigent|mlichen dieser Schriften, deren Veröffentlichung einen besonderen Moment in der Geschichte der Gesamtausgabe darstellt.Die seinsgeschichtliche Deutung des Weltkriegs samt mit ihm verkn|pfter Phänomene wie der Totalisierung der Technik in allen Lebensbereichen erreicht in diesem Band 96 ihren Höhepunkt. Alltäglichstes erscheint als Zeichen der Machenschaft. Dabei verschärft sich der Ton. Nichts bietet dem Denker einen Hinweis auf das Seyn. Alles ist besetzt vom Seienden. In dieser Stimmung einer vollkommenen Verhinderung des anderen Anfangs erreichen Heideggers Angriffe auch das Judentum. Es wird als ein der Machenschaft besonders geschickt dienendes Weltjudentum bestimmt. So tr|bt Heidegger das seinsgeschichtliche Denken unheilvoll durch antij|dische Klischees.
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Gesamtausgabe. 4 Abteilungen / Anmerkungen I-V (Martin Heidegger Gesamtausgabe) (German Edition)
Die Anmerkungen I-V entstanden zwischen 1942 und 1948 (der Band enthält auch jenes Schwarze Heft, das bis vor Kurzem noch als verschollen galt). Wie schon in den Überlegungen (GA 94-96) bieten sie ein einzigartiges Feld verschiedener Gedanken und Einsichten, die zuletzt ein eindrucksvolles Gewebe des Denkens ergeben. Heideggers Gedanke einer Geschichte des Seins beginnt zu verblassen zu Gunsten eines beruhigten Denkens des Gevierts. Dennoch setzen sich die in den Überlegungen auftauchenden problematischen Deutungen des Judentums im Rahmen des geistigen Untergangs der Deutschen fort. Die Nachkriegszeit wird als Selbstverrat des deutschen Auftrags, den anderen Anfang der Seinsgeschichte zu stiften, erfahren. Damit verbunden beginnt Heidegger, nicht nur das Scheitern seines universitätspolitischen Vorhabens 1933/34, sondern auch das 1946 ausgesprochene Lehrverbot zu verarbeiten. Die Aufzeichnungen erlauben einen bisher unbekannten Einblick in die schmerzhafte Neuorientierung des Denkers.
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Gesamtausgabe. 4 Abteilungen / Überlegungen VII - XI: (Schwarze Hefte 1938/39) (Martin Heidegger Gesamtausgabe) (German Edition)
Die von Heidegger sogenannten Schwarzen Hefte bilden ein in der deutschen Geistesgeschichte nicht nur des letzten Jahrhunderts einzigartiges Manuskript. Von 1931 bis zum Anfang der siebziger Jahre zeichnet Heidegger in vierunddreissig Wachstuchheften Gedanken und Gedankengef|ge auf. Zuweilen - wie in den Überlegungen (GA 94-96) der dreissiger Jahre - stellen sie eine unmittelbare Auseinandersetzung mit der Zeit dar. Dann - wie in den Vier Heften (GA 99) vom Ende der vierziger Jahre - erweisen sie sich als philosophische Versuche, so dass die Schwarzen Hefte sich am ehesten als Denktageb|cher bezeichnen lassen. Weil die Aufzeichnungen sich immer wieder der Nähe der Tagesereignisse aussetzen, zeigen sie sich in einem unverwechselbaren Stil. In den Schwarzen Heften scheint der Leser dem Denker so nah zu sein wie sonst nie. Er kann sp|ren, wie sehr sich das Denken auf sein Gedachtes einlässt. Das bringt mit sich, dass die Schwarzen Hefte, wie kein anderes Manuskript des ohnehin leidenschaftlich diskutierten Denkers, umstritten sein werden. Die Härte der Auseinandersetzung mit zeitgeschichtlichen Vorgängen wird mitunter dem Besprochenen nicht gerecht. Manche Hefte enthalten in vielerlei Hinsicht Problematisches. Dann wieder trifft der Angriff das Richtige. Alles gehört zum Eigent|mlichen dieser Schriften, deren Veröffentlichung einen besonderen Moment in der Geschichte der Gesamtausgabe darstellt.In den in Band 95 enthaltenen Einträgen ist Heidegger auf dem Weg, seine Nähe zum Nationalsozialismus zu verlassen. Immer mehr erblickt er in ihm eine Verkörperung der Machenschaft. Die Kritik an der Ideologie im Besonderen und Allgemeinen nimmt zu, d.h. ein seinsgeschichtliches Verständnis von Bolschewismus und Kommunismus wird ausgearbeitet. Auch der Nationalismus und die Rassentheorie werden als die Vollendung des abendländischen Subjekt-Denkens abgelehnt. Dennoch gerät zum ersten Mal das Judentum auf problematische Weise in den Blick.
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Gesamtausgabe
Die von Heidegger sogenannten Schwarzen Hefte bilden ein in der deutschen Geistesgeschichte nicht nur des letzten Jahrhunderts einzigartiges Manuskript. Von 1931 bis zum Anfang der siebziger Jahre zeichnet Heidegger in vierunddreissig Wachstuchheften Gedanken und Gedankengef|ge auf. Zuweilen - wie in den Überlegungen (GA 94-96) der dreissiger Jahre - stellen sie eine unmittelbare Auseinandersetzung mit der Zeit dar. Dann - wie in den Vier Heften (GA 99) vom Ende der vierziger Jahre - erweisen sie sich als philosophische Versuche, so dass die Schwarzen Hefte sich am ehesten als Denktageb|cher bezeichnen lassen.
Weil die Aufzeichnungen sich immer wieder der Nähe der Tagesereignisse aussetzen, zeigen sie sich in einem unverwechselbaren Stil. In den Schwarzen Heften scheint der Leser dem Denker so nah zu sein wie sonst nie. Er kann sp|ren, wie sehr sich das Denken auf sein Gedachtes einlässt. Das bringt mit sich, dass die Schwarzen Hefte, wie kein anderes Manuskript des ohnehin leidenschaftlich diskutierten Denkers, umstritten sein werden. Die Härte der Auseinandersetzung mit zeitgeschichtlichen Vorgängen wird mitunter dem Besprochenen nicht gerecht. Manche Hefte enthalten in vielerlei Hinsicht Problematisches. Dann wieder trifft der Angriff das Richtige. Alles gehört zum Eigent|mlichen dieser Schriften, deren Veröffentlichung einen besonderen Moment in der Geschichte der Gesamtausgabe darstellt.
Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Entscheidung zum einjährigen Rektorat an der Freiburger Universität 1933/34 nimmt in Band 94 einen grossen Raum ein. Es wird deutlich, dass Heidegger bei aller Zustimmung zum politischen Umbruch der Nationalsozialisten von Anfang an Bedenken gegen diese hegt. Die Niederlegung des Amtes gibt neuen Raum frei f|r die Ausarbeitung des seinsgeschichtlichen Denkens, das unmittelbarer als in allen anderen Schriften Heideggers auf alltägliche Phänomene in Religion, Kunst und Wissenschaft angewendet wird. Insbesondere diese seine seinsgeschichtlichen Lagebeurteilungen bestimmen den Charakter dieser Hefte.
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Kant Und Das Problem Der Metaphysik (Klostermann Rotereihe) (German Edition)
Heideggers "Kant-Buch" gehort mit zu den bedeutendsten Auseinandersetzungen des 20. Jahrhunderts mit dem Philosophen aus Konigsberg. Der Band enthalt die zahlreichen Randbemerkungen aus Heideggers Handexemplar. Der Anhang bringt Heideggers Aufzeichnungen zum Kantbuch sowie mehrere Texte, die Heideggers philosophische Auseinandersetzung mit Ernst Cassirer und dem Marburger Neukantianismus dokumentieren, darunter auch den Bericht uber die Davoser Disputation Heideggers mit Cassirer im Fruhjahr 1929 sowie den Aufsatz Zur Geschichte des philosophischen Lehrstuhles seit 1866, in dem Heidegger eine pragnante Darstellung der Geschichte des Marburger Neukantianismus von Hermann Cohen uber Paul Natorp bis hin zu Ernst Cassirer und Nicolai Hartmann gibt. In "Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik" gibt Heidegger - im Gegenzug gegen die neukantianische Interpretation von Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft als einer Erkenntnistheorie und Theorie der Erfahrung - eine Auslegung dieses ersten Hauptwerkes von Kant als eine Grundlegung der Metaphysik, deren ursprunglichere Wiederholung die Fundamentalontologie als Metaphysik des Daseins in Sein und Zeit ist. Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik versteht sich daher auch als eine "geschichtliche" Einleitung in die in Sein und Zeit behandelte Problematik, "was aber," so Heidegger, "nur dadurch moglich wurde, dass gegen Kant Gewalt gebraucht wurde in der Richtung einer ursprunglicheren Fassung eben des transzendentalen Entwurfs in seiner Einheitlichkeit, Herausstellung der transzendentalen Einbildungskraft. Diese Kantauslegung ist 'historisch' unrichtig, gewiss, aber sie ist geschichtlich, d.h. auf die Vorbereitung des kunftigen Denkens und nur darauf bezogen.""
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Gesamtausgabe, Kt, Bd.24, Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie
by Martin Heidegger, Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann
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Sein Und Zeit (German Edition)
Die Abhandlung »Sein und Zeit« erschien zuerst im Frühjahr 1927 in dem von Edmund Husserl herausgegebenen »Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung«, Band VIII, und gleichzeitig als Sonderdruck. Als eines der berühmtesten und wirkungsmächtigsten philosophischen Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts ist es ein unverzichtbarer Quellentext für die Philosophie, übersetzt in über 25 Sprachen der Welt.
Dreißig Jahre nach dem Tod Martin Heideggers (1889-1976) wird sein epochemachendes Hauptwerk über den Sinn des Seins nun neu gesetzt aufgelegt, um das Werk seinen zahlreichen Leserinnen und Lesern in aller Welt wieder in einem ansprechenden Druck zu präsentieren.
Diese 19. Auflage ist textidentisch, zeilen- und seitengleich mit den zuletzt unveränderten Nachdrucken der 15. anhand der Gesamtausgabe durchgesehenen Auflage mit den Randbemerkungen aus dem Handexemplar des Autors im Anhang.
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Holzwege
Die 1949/50 erstmals veroffentlichte Sammlung von sechs Abhandlungen aus dem Zeitraum von 1936 bis 1946 vereinigt so Entscheidendes wie Heideggers Frage nach dem Wesen der Kunst (Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes, 1935/36), den Aufweis der Grundlegung des neuzeitlichen Weltbildes durch die Metaphysik (Die Zeit des Weltbildes, 1938), eine Auslegung von Hegels spekulativem Begriff der Erfahrung in der Phanomenologie des Geistes (Hegels Begriff der Erfahrung, 1942/43), die Zusammenfassung seiner grossen Nietzsche-Interpretationen (Nietzsches Wort Gott ist tot, 1943), sein Gesprach mit der Dichtung Rilkes (Wozu Dichter, 1946) und seine Deutung des Vorsokratikers Anaximander (Der Spruch des Anaximander, 1946). In diesen sechs Abhandlungen werden von Heidegger einzelne Fragen aus dem Gefuge des seinsgeschichtlichen Denkens, dessen erste Durchgestaltung in den Beitragen zur Philosophie (Gesamtausgabe Band 65) vorliegt, herausgehoben und entfaltet. Wie alle Bande der I. Abteilung, so enthalt auch dieser eine Auswahl von Randbemerkungen aus den Handexemplaren Heideggers. Die Zusammenstellung der Marginalien wurde vom Herausgeber nach den vom Autor gegebenen Richtlinien besorgt.
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Martin Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe: Wegmarken (1919-1961) (German Edition)
Die Wegmarken, der in dritter Auflage erscheinende Band 9 der Gesamtausgabe, geben einen Querschnitt durch Heideggers Denken von 1919 bis 1961. Das philosophische Gewicht der Wegmarken liegt zugleich in den zahl- und aufschlussreichen Randbemerkungen aus den Handexemplaren Heideggers, die erst mit der Neuveroffentlichung seiner Schriften in der Gesamtausgabe insbesondere die Texte Was ist Metaphysik? (mit Nachwort und Einleitung), Vom Wesen des Grundes, Vom Wesen der Wahrheit und Brief uber den Humanismus in hohem Masse bereichern.
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Martin Heidegger, Unterwegs Zur Sprache (1950-1959) (Martin Heidegger Gesamtausgabe) (German Edition)
Die Texte dieses Bandes sind, mit Ausnahme des 1953/54 niedergeschriebenen Gesprachs, Vortrage, die Heidegger zwischen 1950 und 1959 gehalten hat. Alle Texte denken dem Wesen der Sprache nach. In den beiden ersten Texten fuhrt Heidegger sein denkendes Gesprach mit der Dichtung Georg Trakls, im vierten und funften Text mit der Spatdichtung Stefan Georges. Das Nachdenken dem Wesen der Sprache auf dem Wege des Gesprachs mit den Dichtern erwachst aus der Einsicht in die wesensnahe Nachbarschaft von Dichten und Denken, in der beide aus ihrem Wesen durch eine zarte, aber helle Differenz in ihr eigenes Dunkel auseinander gehalten sind.
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Ponderings VII–XI: Black Notebooks 1938–1939 (Studies in Continental Thought)
Through these broad and sprawling notebooks, Heidegger offers fascinating opinions on Holderlin, Nietzsche, Wagner, Wittgenstein, Pascal, and many others. The importance of the Black Notebooks transcends Heidegger's relationship with National Socialism. These personal notebooks contain reflections on technology, art, Christianity, the history of philosophy, and Heidegger's attempt to move beyond that history into another beginning.
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Heraclitus: The Inception of Occidental Thinking and Logic: Heraclitus’s Doctrine of the Logos (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)
Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe. This important volume consists of two lecture courses given by Heidegger at the University of Freiburg over the Summers of 1943 and 1944 on the thought of Heraclitus. These lectures shed important light on Heidegger's understanding of Greek thinking, as well as his understanding of Germany, the history of philosophy, the Western world, and their shared destinies.
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Being and Truth
In these lectures, delivered in 1933-1934 while he was Rector of the University of Freiburg and an active supporter of the National Socialist regime, Martin Heidegger addresses the history of metaphysics and the notion of truth from Heraclitus to Hegel. First published in German in 2001, these two lecture courses offer a sustained encounter with Heidegger's thinking during a period when he attempted to give expression to his highest ambitions for a philosophy engaged with politics and the world. While the lectures are strongly nationalistic and celebrate the revolutionary spirit of the time, they also attack theories of racial supremacy in an attempt to stake out a distinctively Heideggerian understanding of what it means to be a people. This careful translation offers valuable insight into Heidegger's views on language, truth, animality, and life, as well as his political thought and activity.
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The History of Beyng (Studies in Continental Thought)
The History of Beyng belongs to a series of Martin Heidegger's reflections from the 1930s that concern how to think about being not merely as a series of occurrences, but as essentially historical or fundamentally as an event. Beginning with Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event), these texts are important for their meditations on the oblivion and abandonment of being, politics, and race, and for their incisive critique of power, force, and violence. Originally published in 1998 as volume 69 of Heidegger's Complete Works, this English translation opens new avenues for understanding the trajectory of Heidegger's thinking during this crucial time.
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Nietzsche, Vol. 1: The Will to Power as Art, Vol. 2: The Eternal Recurrance of the Same
A landmark discussion between two great thinkers, vital to an understanding of twentieth-century philosophy and intellectual history.
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Basic Writings (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
“One of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century.” — New York Times
The finest single-volume anthology of the great philosopher’s work, with a new introduction by leading Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman
Basic Writings is the finest single-volume anthology of the work of Martin Heidegger, widely considered one of the most important modern philosophers. Its selections offer a full range of the influential author's writings—including "The Origin of the Work of Art," the introduction to Being and Time, "What Is Metaphysics?," "Letter on Humanism," "The Question Concerning Technology," "The Way to Language," and "The End of Philosophy." This essential collection provides readers with a concise introduction to the groundbreaking philosophy of this brilliant and essential thinker.
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Discourse on Thinking (Torchbooks TB 1459) (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
Discourse on Thinking questions that must occur to us the moment we manage to see a familiar situation in unfamiliar light.
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History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg in the summer of 1925, an early version of Being and Time (1927), offers a unique glimpse into the motivations that prompted the writing of this great philosopher's master work and the presuppositions that gave shape to it. The book embarks upon a provisional description of what Heidegger calls "Dasein," the field in which both being and time become manifest. Heidegger analyzes Dasein in its everydayness in a deepening sequence of terms: being-in-the-world, worldhood, and care as the being of Dasein. The course ends by sketching the themes of death and conscience and their relevance to an ontology that makes the phenomenon of time central. Theodore Kisiel's outstanding translation premits English-speaking readers to appreciate the central importance of this text in the development of Heidegger's thought.
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What is called thinking?
"For an acquaintance with the thought of Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? is as important as Being and Time. It is the only systematic presentation of the thinker's late philosophy and . . . it is perhaps the most exciting of his books."--Hannah Arendt
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Basic Concepts
Basic Concepts, one of the first texts to appear in English from the critical later period of Martin Heidegger's thought, strikes out in new directions. First published in German in 1981 as Grundbegriffe (volume 51 of Martin Heidegger's Collected Works), it is the text of a lecture course that Heidegger gave at Freiburg in the winter semester of 1941 during the phase of his thinking known as the "turning." In this translation, Heidegger shifted his attention from the problem of the meaning of being to the question of the truth of being. In this lucid translation by Gary E. Aylesworth, Basic Concepts provides a concise introduction to Heidegger's later thought.
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Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event) (Studies in Continental Thought)
Martin Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy reflects his famous philosophical "turning." In this work, Heidegger returns to the question of being from its inception in Being and Time to a new questioning of being as event. Heidegger opens up the essential dimensions of his thinking on the historicality of being that underlies all of his later writings. Contributions was composed as a series of private ponderings that were not originally intended for publication. They are nonlinear and radically at odds with the traditional understanding of thinking. This translation presents Heidegger in plain and straightforward terms, allowing surer access to this new turn in Heidegger's conception of being.
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Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Fifth Edition, Enlarged (Studies in Continental Thought)
by Martin Heidegger, Richard Taft
Since its original publication in 1929, Martin Heidegger's provocative book on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has attracted much attention both as an important contribution to twentieth-century Kant scholarship and as a pivotal work in Heidegger's own development after Being and Time. This fifth, enlarged edition includes marginal notations made by Heidegger in his personal copy of the book and four new appendices―Heidegger's postpublication notes on the book, his review of Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Heidegger's response to reviews by rudolf Odebrecht and Cassirer, and an essay "On the History of the Philosophical Chair since 1866." The work is significant not only for its illuminating assessment of Kant's thought but also for its elaboration of themes first broached in Being and Time, especially the problem of how Heidegger proposed to enact his destruction of the metaphysical tradition and the role that his reading of Kant would play therein.
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The Event
Martin Heidegger's The Event offers his most substantial self-critique of his Contributions to Philosophy: Of the Event and articulates what he means by the event itself. Richard Rojcewicz's elegant translation offers the English-speaking reader intimate contact with one of the most basic Heideggerian concepts. This book lays out how the event is to be understood and ties it closely to looking, showing, self-manifestation, and the self-unveiling of the gods. The Event (Complete Works, volume 71) is part of a series of Heidegger's private writings in response to Contributions.
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Introduction to Phenomenological Research (Studies in Continental Thought)
Introduction to Phenomenological Research, volume 17 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe, contains his first lectures given at Marburg in the winter semester of 1923–1924. In these lectures, Heidegger introduces the notion of phenomenology by tracing it back to Aristotle's treatments of phainomenon and logos. This extensive commentary on Aristotle is an important addition to Heidegger's ongoing interpretations which accompany his thinking during the period leading up to Being and Time. Additionally, these lectures develop critical differences between Heidegger's phenomenology and that of Descartes and Husserl and elaborate questions of facticity, everydayness, and flight from existence that are central in his later work. Here, Heidegger dismantles the history of ontology and charts a new course for phenomenology by defining and distinguishing his own methods.
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The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
A lecture course that Martin Heidegger gave in 1927, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology continues and extends explorations begun in Being and Time. In this text, Heidegger provides the general outline of his thinking about the fundamental problems of philosophy, which he treats by means of phenomenology, and which he defines and explains as the basic problem of ontology.
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Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
The text of Martin Heidegger's 1930-1931 lecture course on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit contains some of Heidegger's most crucial statements about temporality, ontological difference and dialectic, and being and time in Hegel. Within the context of Heidegger's project of reinterpreting Western thought through its central figures, Heidegger takes up a fundamental concern of Being and Time, "a dismantling of the history of ontology with the problematic of temporality as a clue." He shows that temporality is centrally involved in the movement of thinking called phenomenology of spirit.
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Identity and Difference
Identity and Difference consists of English translations and the original German versions of two little-known lectures given in 1957 by Martin Heidegger, "The Principle of Identity" and "The Onto-theo-logical Constitution of Metaphysics." Both lectures discuss the difficult problem of the nature of identity in the history of metaphysics. A helpful introduction and a list of references are also provided by the translator, Joan Stambaugh.
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The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude
This book, the text of Martin Heidegger's lecture course of 1929/30, is crucial for an understanding of Heidegger's transition from the major work of his early years, Being and Time, to his later preoccupations with language, truth, and history. First published in German in 1983 as volume 29/30 of Heidegger's collected works, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics presents an extended treatment of the history of metaphysics and an elaboration of a philosophy of life and nature. Heidegger's concepts of organism, animal behavior, and environment are uniquely developed and defined with intensity. Of major interest is Heidegger's brilliant phenomenological description of the mood of boredome, which he describes as a "fundamental attunement" of modern times.
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Plato's Sophist (Studies in Continental Thought)
This volume reconstructs Martin Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg in the winter semester of 1924-25, which was devoted to an interpretation of Plato and Aristotle. Published for the first time in German in 1992 as volume 19 of Heidegger's Collected Works, it is a major text not only because of its intrinsic importance as an interpretation of the Greek thinkers, but also because of its close, complementary relationship to Being and Time, composed in the same period. In Plato's Sophist, Heidegger approaches Plato through Aristotle, devoting the first part of the lectures to an extended commentary on Book VI of the Nichomachean Ethics. In a line-by-line interpretation of Plato's later dialogue, the Sophist, Heidegger then takes up the relation of Being and non-being, the ontological problematic that forms the essential link between Greek philosophy and Heidegger's thought.
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On the Way to Language
In this volume Martin Heidegger confronts the philosophical problems of language and begins to unfold the meaning begind his famous and little understood phrase "Language is the House of Being."
The "Dialogue on Language," between Heidegger and a Japanese friend, together with the four lectures that follow, present Heidegger's central ideas on the origin, nature, and significance of language. These essays reveal how one of the most profound philosophers of our century relates language to his earlier and continuing preoccupation with the nature of Being and himan being.
One the Way to Language enable readers to understand how central language became to Heidegger's analysis of the nature of Being. On the Way to Language demonstrates that an interest in the meaning of language is one of the strongest bonds between analytic philosophy and Heidegger. It is an ideal source for studying his sustained interest in the problems and possibilities of human language and brilliantly underscores the originality and range of his thinking.
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The End of Philosophy
Joan Stambaugh's translations of the works of Heidegger, accomplished with his guidance, have made key aspects of his thought and philosophy accessible to readers of English for many years. This collection, writes Stambaugh, contains Heidegger's attempt "to show the history of Being as metaphysics," combining three chapters from the philosopher's Nietzsche ("Metaphysics as a History of Being," "Sketches for a History of Being as Metaphysics," and "Recollection in Metaphysics") with a selection from Vorträge und Aufsätze ("Overcoming Metaphysics").
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Country Path Conversations (Studies in Continental Thought)
First published in German in 1995, volume 77 of Heidegger's Complete Works consists of three imaginary conversations written as World War II was coming to an end. Composed at a crucial moment in history and in Heidegger's own thinking, these conversations present meditations on science and technology; the devastation of nature, the war, and evil; and the possibility of release from representational thinking into a more authentic relation with being and the world. The first conversation involves a scientist, a scholar, and a guide walking together on a country path; the second takes place between a teacher and a tower-warden, and the third features a younger man and an older man in a prisoner-of-war camp in Russia, where Heidegger's two sons were missing in action. Unique because of their conversational style, the lucid and precise translation of these texts offers insight into the issues that engaged Heidegger's wartime and postwar thinking.
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The Beginning of Western Philosophy: Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides (Studies in Continental Thought)
Volume 35 of Heidegger's Complete Works comprises a lecture course given at the University of Freiburg in 1932, five years after the publication of Being and Time. During this period, Heidegger was at the height of his creative powers, which are on full display in this clear and imaginative text. In it, Heidegger leads his students in a close reading of two of the earliest philosophical source documents, fragments by Greek thinkers Anaximander and Parmenides. Heidegger develops their common theme of Being and non-being and shows that the question of Being is indeed the origin of Western philosophy. His engagement with these Greek texts is as much of a return to beginnings as it is a potential reawakening of philosophical wonder and inquiry in the present.
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Mindfulness (Bloomsbury Revelations)
Written in 1938/9, Mindfulness (translated from the German Besinnung) is Martin Heidegger's second major being-historical treatise. Here, Heidegger develops some of his key concepts and themes including truth, nothingness, enownment, art and Be-ing and discusses the Greeks, Nietzsche and Hegel at length. In addition to the main text, the text also includes two further important essays, 'A Retrospective Look at the Pathway' (1937/8) and 'The Wish and the Will (On Preserving What is Attempted)' (1937/8), in which Heidegger surveys his unpublished works and discusses his relationship to Catholic and Protestant Christianity and reflects on his life's path. This is a major translation of a key text from one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations Series.
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Off the Beaten Track
Originally published in German under the title Holzwege, this collection of texts is Heidegger's first post-war work and contains some of the major expositions of his later philosophy. Although translations of the essays have appeared individually in a variety of places, this is the first English translation to bring them together as Heidegger intended. It is an invaluable resource for all students of Heidegger, whether they study philosophy, literary theory, religious studies, or intellectual history.
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Introduction to Metaphysics, 2nd Edition
This new edition of one of Heidegger’s most important works features a revised and expanded translators’ introduction and an updated translation, as well as the first English versions of Heidegger’s draft of a portion of the text and of his later critique of his own lectures. Other new features include an afterword by Petra Jaeger, editor of the German text.
“This revised edition of the translation of Heidegger’s 1935 lectures, with its inclusion of helpful new materials, superbly augments the excellent translation provided in the first edition. The result is a richly rewarding volume, to be recommended to every student of Heidegger’s works, whether a novice or a long-time reader.”―Daniel Dahlstrom, Boston University
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On Hegel's Philosophy of Right (Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy)
This is the first English translation of the seminar Martin Heidegger gave during the Winter of 1934-35, which dealt with Hegel's Philosophy of Right. This remarkable text is the only one in which Heidegger interprets Hegel's masterpiece in the tradition of Continental political philosophy while offering a glimpse into Heidegger's own political thought following his engagement with Nazism. It also confronts the ideas of Carl Schmitt, allowing readers to reconstruct the relation between politics and ontology.
The book is enriched by a collection of interpretations of the seminar, written by select European and North American political thinkers and philosophers. Their essays aim to make the seminar accessible to students of political theory and philosophy, as well as to open new directions for debating the relation between the two disciplines. A unique contribution, this volume makes available key lectures by Heidegger that will interest a wide readership of students and scholars.
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Nature, History, State 1933-1934
Nature, History, State: 1933-1934 presents the first complete English-language translation of Heidegger's seminar 'On the Essence and Concepts of Nature, History and State', together with full introductory material and interpretive essays by five leading thinkers and scholars: Robert Bernasconi, Peter Eli Gordon, Marion Heinz, Theodore Kisiel and Slavoj Žižek.
The seminar, which was held while Heidegger was serving as National Socialist rector of the University of Freiburg, represents important evidence of the development of Heidegger's political thought. The text consists of ten 'protocols' on the seminar sessions, composed by students and reviewed by Heidegger. The first session's protocol is a rather personal commentary on the atmosphere in the classroom, but the remainder have every appearance of being faithful transcripts of Heidegger's words, in which he raises a variety of fundamental questions about nature, history and the state. The seminar culminates in an attempt to sketch a political philosophy that supports the 'Führer state'. The text is important evidence for anyone considering the tortured question of Heidegger's Nazism and its connection to his philosophy in general.
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Hölderlin's hymn "The Ister" (Studies in Continental Thought)
Martin Heidegger's 1942 lecture course interprets Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn "The Ister" within the context of Hölderlin's poetic and philosophical work, with particular emphasis on Hölderlin's dialogue with Greek tragedy. Delivered in summer 1942 at the University of Freiburg, this course was first published in German in 1984 as volume 53 of Heidegger's Collected Works. Revealing for Heidegger's thought of the period are his discussions of the meaning of "the political" and "the national," in which he emphasizes the difficulty and the necessity of finding "one's own" in and through a dialogue with "the foreign." In this context Heidegger reflects on the nature of translation and interpretation. A detailed reading of the famous chorus from Sophocles' Antigone, known as the "ode to man," is a key feature of the course.
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Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle: Initiation into Phenomenological Research (Studies in Continental Thought)
Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle is the text of a lecture course presented at the University of Freiburg in the winter of 1921–1922, and first published in 1985 as volume 61 of Heidegger's collected works. Preceding Being and Time, the work shows the young Heidegger introducing novel vocabulary as he searches for his genuine philosophical voice. In this course, Heidegger first takes up the role of the definition of philosophy and then elaborates a unique analysis of "factical life," or human life as it is lived concretely in relation to the world, a relation he calls "caring." Heidegger's descriptions of the movement of life are original and striking. As he works out a phenomenology of factical life, Heidegger lays the groundwork for a phenomenological interpretation of Aristotle, whose influence on Heidegger's philosophy was pivotal.
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Hegel (Studies in Continental Thought)
Martin Heidegger's writings on Hegel are notoriously difficult but show an essential engagement between two of the foundational thinkers of phenomenology. Joseph Arel and Niels Feuerhahn provide a clear and careful translation of Volume 68 of the Complete Works, which is comprised of two shorter texts―a treatise on negativity, and a penetrating reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. In this volume, Heidegger relates his interpretation of Hegel to his own thought on the event, taking up themes developed in Contributions to Philosophy. While many parts of the text are fragmentary in nature, these interpretations are considered some of the most significant as they bring Hegel into Heidegger's philosophical trajectory.
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Ponderings II–VI: Black Notebooks 1931–1938 (Studies in Continental Thought)
Ponderings II–VI begins the much-anticipated English translation of Martin Heidegger's "Black Notebooks." In a series of small notebooks with black covers, Heidegger confided sundry personal observations and ideas over the course of 40 years. The five notebooks in this volume were written between 1931 and 1938 and thus chronicle Heidegger's year as Rector of the University of Freiburg during the Nazi era. Published in German as volume 94 of the Complete Works, these challenging and fascinating journal entries shed light on Heidegger's philosophical development regarding his central question of what it means to be, but also on his relation to National Socialism and the revolutionary atmosphere of the 1930s in Germany. Readers previously familiar only with excerpts taken out of context may now determine for themselves whether the controversy and censure the "Black Notebooks" have received are deserved or not. This faithful translation by Richard Rojcewicz opens the texts in a way that captures their philosophical and political content while disentangling Heidegger's notoriously difficult language.
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Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation
Martin Heidegger's Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation presents crucial elements for understanding Heidegger's thinking from 1936 to 1940. Heidegger offers a radically different reading of a text that he had read decades earlier, showing how his relationship with Nietzche's has changed, as well as how his understandings of the differences between animals and humans, temporality and history, and the Western philosophical tradition developed. With his new reading, Heidegger delineates three Nietzschean modes of history, which should be understood as grounded in the structure of temporality or historicity and also offers a metaphysical determination of life and the essence of humankind. Ullrich Hasse and Mark Sinclair offer a clear and accessible translation despite the fragmentary and disjointed quality of the original lecture notes that comprise this text.
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Ontology―The Hermeneutics of Facticity (Studies in Continental Thought)
First published in 1988 as volume 63 of his Collected Works, Ontology―The Hermeneutics of Facticity is the text of Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Freiburg during the summer of 1923. In these lectures, Heidegger reviews and makes critical appropriations of the hermeneutic tradition from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to Schleiermacher and Dilthey in order to reformulate the question of being on the basis of facticity and the everyday world. Specific themes deal with the history of ontology, the development of phenomenology and its relation to Hegelian dialectic, traditional theological and philosophical concepts of man, the present situation of philosophy, and the influences of Aristotle, Luther, Kierkegaard, and Husserl on Heidegger's thinking. Students of Heidegger will find initial breakthroughs in his unique elaboration of the meaning of human experience and the "question of being," which received mature expression in Being and Time.
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Parmenides (Studies in Continental Thought)
Parmenides, a lecture course delivered by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in 1942-1943, presents a highly original interpretation of ancient Greek philosophy. A major contribution to Heidegger's provocative dialogue with the pre-Socratics, the book attacks some of the most firmly established conceptions of Greek thinking and of the Greek world. The central theme is the question of truth and the primordial understanding of truth to be found in Parmenides' "didactic poem." Heidegger highlights the contrast between Greek and Roman thought and the reflection of that contrast in language. He analyzes the decline in the primordial understanding of truth―and, just as importantly, of untruth―that began in later Greek philosophy and that continues, by virtue of the Latinization of the West, down to the present day. Beyond an interpretation of Greek philosophy, Parmenides (volume 54 of Heidegger's Collected Works) offers a strident critique of the contemporary world, delivered during a time that Heidegger described as "out of joint."
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Being and Truth (Studies in Continental Thought)
In these lectures, delivered in 1933-1934 while he was Rector of the University of Freiburg and an active supporter of the National Socialist regime, Martin Heidegger addresses the history of metaphysics and the notion of truth from Heraclitus to Hegel. First published in German in 2001, these two lecture courses offer a sustained encounter with Heidegger's thinking during a period when he attempted to give expression to his highest ambitions for a philosophy engaged with politics and the world. While the lectures are strongly nationalistic and celebrate the revolutionary spirit of the time, they also attack theories of racial supremacy in an attempt to stake out a distinctively Heideggerian understanding of what it means to be a people. This careful translation offers valuable insight into Heidegger's views on language, truth, animality, and life, as well as his political thought and activity.
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The Phenomenology of Religious Life
The Phenomenology of Religious Life presents the text of Heidegger's important 1920–21 lectures on religion. The volume consists of the famous lecture course Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion, a course on Augustine and Neoplatonism, and notes for a course on The Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism that was never delivered. Heidegger's engagements with Aristotle, St. Paul, Augustine, and Luther give readers a sense of what phenomenology would come to mean in the mature expression of his thought. Heidegger reveals an impressive display of theological knowledge, protecting Christian life experience from Greek philosophy and defending Paul against Nietzsche.
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Pathmarks (Texts in German Philosophy)
This is the first time that a seminal collection of fourteen essays by Martin Heidegger (originally published in German under the title Wegmarken) has appeared in English in its complete form. The volume includes new or first-time translations of seven essays, and thoroughly revised, updated versions of the other seven. They will prove an essential resource for all students of Heidegger, whether they work in philosophy, literary theory, religious studies or intellectual history.
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Heraclitus Seminar (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
by Martin Heidegger, Eugen Fink
In 1966–1967 Martin Heidegger and Eugen Fink conducted an extraordinary seminar on the fragments of Heraclitus. Heraclitus Seminar records those conversations, documenting the imaginative and experimental character of the multiplicity of interpretations offered and providing an invaluable portrait of Heidegger involved in active discussion and explication.
Heidegger's remarks in this seminar illuminate his interpretations not only of pre-Socratic philosophy, but also of figures such as Hegel and Holderllin. At the same time, Heidegger clarifies many late developments in his own understanding of truth, Being, and understanding. Heidegger and Fink, both deeply rooted in the Freiburg phenomenological tradition, offer two competing approaches to the phenomenological reading of the ancient text-a kind of reading that, as Fink says, is "not so much concerned with the philological problematic . . . as with advancing into the matter itself, that is, toward the matter that must have stood before Heraclitus's spiritual view."
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Poetry, Language, Thought (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
Poetry, Language, Thought collects Martin Heidegger's pivotal writings on art, its role in human life and culture, and its relationship to thinking and truth. Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opens up appreciation of Heidegger beyond the study of philosophy to the reaches of poetry and our fundamental relationship to the world. Featuring "The Origin of the Work of Art," a milestone in Heidegger's canon, this enduring volume provides potent, accessible entry to one of the most brilliant thinkers of modern times.
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Zollikon Seminars: Protocols - Conversations - Letters
Long awaited and eagerly anticipated, this remarkable volume allows English-speaking readers to experience a profound dialogue between the German philosopher Martin Heidegger and the Swiss psychiatrist Medard Boss. A product of their warm friendship, Zollikon Seminars chronicles an extraordinary exchange of ideas. Heidegger strove to transcend the bounds of philosophy while Boss and his colleagues in the scientific community sought to understand their patients and their world. The result: the best and clearest introduction to Heidegger's philosophy available.
Boss approached Heidegger asking for help in reflective thinking on the nature of Heidegger's work. Soon they were holding annual two-week meetings in Boss's home in Zollikon, Switzerland. The protocols from these seminars, recorded by Boss and reviewed, corrected, and supplemented by Heidegger himself, make up one part of this volume. They are augmented by Boss's record of the conversations he had with Heidegger in the days between seminars and by excerpts from the hundreds of letters the philosopher wrote to Boss between 1947 and 1971.
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Logic As the Question Concerning the Essence of Language (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
This first English translation of Logik als die Frage nach dem Wesen der Sprache, volume 38 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe, contains novel ideas on logic and language that are important for anyone wishing to think beyond traditional views of these topics. Based on student transcripts of Heidegger's lectures and manuscripts for a 1934 summer course, the work contains his first public reflection on the nature of language itself. Given shortly after Heidegger's resignation to the rectorship of the University of Freiburg, the course also opens up fresh perspectives on his controversial involvement with the Nazi regime. Heidegger's critical probing of logic involves metaphysics and poetry and intertwines essential questions concerning language as a world-forming power, the human being, history, and time. This work marks a milestone in Heidegger's path of thinking as his first meditation on language as a primal event of being.
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Letters, 1925-1975
by Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger
When they first met in 1925, Martin Heidegger was a star of German intellectual life and Hannah Arendt was his earnest young student. What happened between them then will never be known, but both would cherish their brief intimacy for the rest of their lives.
The ravages of history would soon take them in quite different directions. After Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, Heidegger became rector of the university in Freiburg, delivering a notorious pro-Nazi address that has been the subject of considerable controversy. Arendt, a Jew, fled Germany the same year, heading first to Paris and then to New York. In the decades to come, Heidegger would be recognized as perhaps the most significant philosopher of the twentieth century, while Arendtwould establish herself as a voice of conscience in a century of tyranny and war.
Illuminating, revealing, and tender throughout, this correspondence offers a glimpse into the inner lives of two major philosophers.
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The Essence of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus (Bloomsbury Revelations)
The Essence of Truth is an examination of the most fundamental theme in Heidegger's philosophy: the difference between truth as 'the unhiddenness of beings' and truth as 'the correctness of propositions'. Based on a course of lectures delivered at the University of Freiburg in 1932, the book presents Heidegger's original analysis of Plato's philosophy and represents an important discussion of a fundamental subject of philosophy through the ages.
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Being and Time An Annotated Translation
A new, more accessible translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century
Martin Heidegger's seminal work Sein und Zeit (Being and Time) is an exploration of the founding conditions of our being in any world, and of the varying revelations that allow for radically different experiences of things. But the very originality of the work, and the relentless stream of neologisms that Heidegger used to express concepts for which philosophy had no vocabulary, make the book a daunting read. This translation by Cyril Welch, classroom‑tested for more than twenty years, is far more readable than previous versions. It includes explanatory footnotes, as well as a translator's preface that sets out Heidegger's overall purpose and strategy in this complex and essential work.
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