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"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
Introduction to Philosophy (volume 27 of Heidegger's Complete
Works) presents Heidegger's lecture course delivered in the winter
semester of 1928-1929 at the University of Freiburg, translated
into English for the first time by William McNeil. In this lecture
series, Heidegger explores two major themes: the relation between
philosophy and science and the relation between philosophy and
Weltanschauung (worldview). Through extensive analyses of truth,
unconcealment, and transcendence, he delves into topics that would
expand into his later work. From being-with and community to the
phenomenon of world and the "play" of world, Heidegger covers a
wide range of philosophical concepts with unprecedented clarity and
profound insight. Introduction to Philosophy offer an encounter
with a true master at work.
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On Inception (Hardcover)
Martin Heidegger; Translated by Peter Hanly
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R988
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On Inception is a translation of Martin Heidegger's ber den Anfang
(GA 70). This work belongs to the crucial period, before and during
WWII, when Heidegger was at work on a series of treatises that
begins with "Contributions to Philosophy" and includes "The Event"
and "The History of Beyng." These works are difficult, even
hermetic, but represent a crucial development in Heidegger's
thinking. On Inception deepens the investigation underway in the
other volumes of the series and provides a unique perspective on
Heidegger's thinking of Being and of Event. Here, Heidegger asks,
with a greater insistence than anywhere else in his work, what it
might mean to think of being as event, and not as presence. Event
cannot be thought without the sense of a beginning—an
inception—and so, Heidegger insists, we must try to think of
being as inception, as fundamentally inceptive. On Inception
pursues rigorously the difficult and puzzling implications of this
speculation. It does not merely extend work already undertaken but
also opens doors onto wholly other pathways.
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. -- Indiana
University Press
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. As relevant now as ever before, this collection is
an essential landmark in the philosophy of science from "one of the
most profound thinkers of the twentieth century" (New York
Times).
"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. 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."
This first paperback edition of John Macquarrie and Edward
Robinson's definitive translation also features a new foreword by
Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman.
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.
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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Four Seminars (Paperback)
Martin Heidegger; Translated by Andrew J. Mitchell, Francois Raffoul
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R545
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In Four Seminars, Heidegger reviews the entire trajectory of his
thought and offers unique perspectives on fundamental aspects of
his work. First published in French in 1976, these seminars were
translated into German with Heidegger's approval and reissued in
1986 as part of his Gesamtausgabe, volume 15. Topics considered
include the Greek understanding of presence, the ontological
difference, the notion of system in German Idealism, the power of
naming, the problem of technology, danger, and the event.
Heidegger's engagements with his philosophical
forebears-Parmenides, Heraclitus, Kant, and Hegel-continue in
surprising dialogues with his contemporaries-Husserl, Marx, and
Wittgenstein. While providing important insights into how Heidegger
conducted his lectures, these seminars show him in his maturity
reflecting back on his philosophical path. An important text for
understanding contemporary philosophical debates, Four Seminars
provides extraordinarily rich material for students and scholars of
Heidegger. -- Indiana University Press
Heidegger's lectures delivered at the University of Freiburg in
1936 on Schelling's Treatise On Human Freedom came at a crucial
turning point in Heidegger's development. He had just begun his
study to work out the term \u201cEreignis.\u201d Heidegger's
interpretation of Schelling's work reveals a dimension of his
thinking which has never been previously published in English.
While Schelling's philosophy is less known than that of the other
major German Idealists, Fichte and Hegel, he is one of the thinker
with whom Heidegger has the most affinity, making this study
fruitful for an understanding of both philosophers. Heidegger's
interpretation of On Human Freedom is the most straightforward of
the studies to have appeared in English on the Treatise, and is the
only work that is devoted to Schelling in Heidegger's corpus. The
basic problems at stake in Schelling's Treatise lie at the very
heart of the idealist tradition: the question of the compatibility
of the system and individual freedom, the questions of pantheism
and the justification of evil. Schelling was the first thinker in
the rationalist-idealist tradition to grapple seriously with the
problem of evil. These are the great questions of the philosophical
tradition. They lead Schelling and, with him, Heidegger, to
possibilities that come very close to the boundaries of the
idealist tradition. For example, Schelling's concept of the
\u201cgroundless\u201d--what reason can no longer ground and
explain--points back to Jacob Boehme and indirectly forward to the
direction of Heidegger's own inquiry into \u201cBeing.\u201d
Heidegger's reading of Schelling, especially of the topics of evil
and freedom, clearly shows Schelling's influence on Heidegger's
views.
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.
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.
Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning is a key text for
the origins of Martin Heidegger's concept of "facticity."
Originally submitted as a postdoctoral thesis in 1915, it focuses
on the 13th-century philosopher-theologian John Duns Scotus.
Heidegger first analyzes Scotus's doctrine of categories, then
offers a meticulous explanation of the Grammatica Speculativa, a
work of medieval grammar now known to be authored by the Modist
grammarian Thomas of Erfurt. Taken together, these investigations
represent an early foray into Heidegger's lifelong philosophical
concerns, "the question of being in the guise of the problem of
categories and the question of language in the guise of the
doctrine of meaning." This new and unique translation of one of
Heidegger's earliest works offers an important look at his early
thinking before the question of being became his central concern
and will appeal to readers exploring Heidegger's philosophical
development, medieval philosophy, phenomenological interpretations
of the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of language.
Martin Heidegger s 1934 1935 lectures on Friedrich Holderlin s
hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine" are considered the most
significant among Heidegger s lectures on Holderlin. Coming at a
crucial time in his career, the text illustrates Heidegger s turn
toward language, art, and poetry while reflecting his despair at
his failure to revolutionize the German university and his hope for
a more profound revolution through the German language, guided by
Holderlin s poetry. These lectures are important for understanding
Heidegger s changing relation to politics, his turn toward
Nietzsche, his thinking about the German language, and his
breakthrough to a new kind of poetic thinking. First published in
1980 as volume 39 of Heidegger s Complete Works, this graceful and
rigorous English-language translation will be widely discussed in
continental philosophy and literary theory."
Dear Father Richardson: It is with some hesitation that I attempt
to answer the two principal questions you posed in your letter of
March I, 1962. The first touches on the initial impetus that
determined the way my thought would gO. l The other looks for
information about the much discussed "reversal" [in my
development]. I hesitate with my answers, for they are necessarily
no more than indications [of much more to be said]. The lesson of
long experience leads me to surmise that such indications will not
be taken as directions for the road of independent reflection on
the matter pointed out which each must travel for himself. [Instead
they] will gain notice as though they were an opinion I had ex
pressed, and will be propagated as such. Every effort to bring what
has been thought closer to prevailing modes of (re)presen tation
must assimilate what-is-to-be-thought to those (re)presen tations
and thereby inevitably deform the matter. 2 This preamble is not
the lament of a man misunderstood; it is rather the recognition of
an almost insurmountable difficulty in making oneself understood.
The first question in your letter reads: "How are we properly to
understand your first experience of the Being-question in 1
[Translator's note. With regard to the translati~ of Denken, see
below, p. 16, note 43. ] I [Translator's note. For the translation
of VorsteUung by "(re)presentation," see below, p. 108, note 5. ]
VORWORT Sehr geehrter Herr P.
Martin Heidegger's 1941-1942 lecture course on Friedrich
Hoelderlin's hymn, "Remembrance," delivered immediately following
his confrontation with Nietzsche, lays out a detailed plan for the
interpretation of Hoelderlin's poetry in which remembrance is a
central concern. With its emphasis on the "free use of the
national" and the "holy of the fatherland," the course marks an
important progression in Heidegger's political thought. In addition
to its startlingly innovative analyses of greeting, the festive,
and the dream, the text provides Heidegger's fullest elaboration of
the structure of commemorative thinking in relationship to time and
the possibility of an "other beginning." This English translation
by William McNeill and Julia Ireland completes the series of
Heidegger's major lecture courses on Hoelderlin.
Martin Heidegger's 1925-26 lectures on truth and time provided much
of the basis for his momentous work, Being and Time. Not published
until 1976 as volume 21 of the Complete Works, three months before
Heidegger's death, this work is central to Heidegger's overall
project of reinterpreting Western thought in terms of time and
truth. The text shows the degree to which Aristotle underlies
Heidegger's hermeneutical theory of meaning. It also contains
Heidegger's first published critique of Husserl and takes major
steps toward establishing the temporal bases of logic and truth.
Thomas Sheehan's elegant and insightful translation offers
English-speaking readers access to this fundamental text for the
first time.
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.
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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Hegel (Hardcover)
Martin Heidegger; Translated by Joseph Arel, Niels Feuerhahn
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R847
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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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Being and Truth (Paperback)
Martin Heidegger; Translated by Gregory Fried, Richard Polt
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R743
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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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