Books by Martin Heidegger

Book SynopsisHeidegger's innovative dialogue with Kant's transcendental philosophy.Trade ReviewHeidegger's interpretation of Kant remains a challenging way to address the issues that both Kant and Heidegger saw as crucial. . . . In reading [Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics] we can struggle with some basic issues of human existence in the company of two great minds. * International Philosophical Quarterly *One of Heidegger's most important and extraordinary works. . . . indispensable for anyone interested in Heidegger's thought as well as in current trends in hermeneutics, ethics, and political philosophy. * Interpretation *With every passing year . . . this work continues to grow in significance and stature. Publication of this new translation could not be more timely . . . a finely nuanced translation . . . This authoritative English translation will play an important role in determining Heidegger's reputation in the coming years. An essential acquisition for all collections. * Choice *Table of ContentsTranslator's IntroductionReferences to Works of Kant and HeideggerPreface to the Fourth EditionPrefaces to the First, Second, and Third EditionsIntroductionThe Theme and Structure of the InvestigationThe unfolding of the idea of a Fundamental Ontology through the interpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason as a laying of the ground for MetaphysicsPart OneThe Starting Point for the Laying of the Ground for MetaphysicsPart TwoCarrying out the Laying of the Ground for MetaphysicsA. The Characterization of the Dimension of Going-Back (needed) for Carrying Out the Laying of the Ground for MetaphysicsI. The Essential Characteristics of the Field of OriginII. The Manner of Unveiling the OriginB. The Stages of Carrying out the Projection of the Inner Possibility of OntologyThe First Stage in the Ground-Laying: The Essential Elements of Pure Knowledge A) Pure Intuition in Finite Knowing B) Pure Thinking in Finite KnowingThe Second Stage of the Ground-Laying: The Essential Unity of Pure KnowledgeThe Third Stage of the Ground-Laying: The Inner Possibility of the Essential Unity of Ontological SynthesisThe Fourth Stage of the Ground-Laying: The Ground for the Inner Possibility of Ontological KnowledgeThe Fifth Stage of the Ground-Laying: The Full Essential Determination of Ontological KnowledgePart ThreeThe Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics in Its OriginalityA. The Explicit Characterization of the Ground Laid in the Ground-LayingB. The Transcendental Power of Imagination as Root of Both StemsC. The Transcendental Power of Imagination and the Problem of Human Pure ReasonPart FourThe Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics in a RetrievalThe Laying of the Ground for Metaphysics in AnthropologyB. The Problem of Finitude in Human Beings and the Metaphysics of DaseinC. The Metaphysics of Dasein as Fundamental OntologyAppendicesI. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Task of a Laying of the Ground for MetaphysicsII. Davos Disputation between Ernst Cassirer and Martin HeideggerTranslator's Notes

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Book SynopsisHeidegger's provocative interpretation of ancient Greek philosophy.Table of ContentsTranslators' ForewordIntroduction: Preparatory mediation on the name and the work and its counter-essence. Two directives from the translating word1. The goddess "truth." Parmenides, I, 22-32.Part One: The third directive form the translating word: the realm of the opposition between and in the history of Being2. First meditation on the transformation of the essence of truth and of its counter-essence.3. Clarification of the transformation of and of the transformation of its counter-essence (veritas, certitudo, rectitudo, iustita, truth, justice—4. The multiplicity of the oppositions to unconcealedness in its essential character.5. The opposite to The event of the transformation of the withdrawing concealment and the human behavior of forgetting.6. The Greeks' final word concerning the hidden counter-essence of (I): The concluding myth of Plato's Politeia. The myth of the essence of the polis. Elucidation of the essence of the demonic. The essence of the Greek gods in the light of The "view" of the uncanny.7. The Greeks final word concerning the hidden counter-essence of (II). The concluding myth of Plato's Politeia. The field ofPart Two: The Fourth directive from the translating word . The open and free space of the clearing of Being. The goddess "truth."8. The fuller significance of dis-closure. The transition to subjectivity. The fourth directive: the open, the free. The event of in the West. The groundlessness of the open. The alienation of man.9. The looking of Being in the open lighted by it. The directive within the reference to the word of Parmenides: the thinker's journey to the home of and his thinking out toward the beginning. The saying of the beginning in the language of the Occident.AddendumEditor's Afterword

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Book SynopsisFeatures a revised and expanded translators' introduction and an updated translation, as well as the English versions of author's draft of a portion of the text and of his later critique of his own lectures.Trade Review"The translators have improved upon their excellent, earlier translation: nuances have been made clearer and the style brought closer to Heidegger's own style. Eminently readable, this translation should stand the test of time."—Dennis J. Schmidt, Pennsylvania State University"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"The quality of the translation is outstanding, and the introduction and glossary are eminently clear and helpful."—Bret W. Davis, author of Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit"There is no questioning the exceedingly high quality of Polt and Fried’s translation as well as their reliably judicious choice of words. Students and scholars alike profit immensely, too, from the explanations that they give of specific translations."—Daniel Dahlstrom, Boston University"Fried and Polt have produced a first-rate edition of this pivotal and important text. Their new translation is rigorous and abides by the best standards of Heidegger scholarship. It also has a new fluency that brings this difficult text into reach of English language readers."—Dennis J. Schmidt, Penn State University

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Book SynopsisHeidegger's most important thinking of his later careerTrade ReviewIn the end, this volume represents an indisputable contribution to English language Heidegger scholarship, rendered in an accessible yet faithful translation, and provides an unparalleled introduction into Heidegger's views on science, technology, language, and thinking, as well as the later period of his thought as a whole. This volume is an essential contribution to the discipline and is one which can be readily used with students who are approaching Heidegger for the first time as well as those more familiar with the trajectory and subtle modifications of Heidegger's thought throughout his career. Mitchell's translation is superbly readable and will be the standard for years to come. * Continental Philosophy Review *Table of ContentsTranslator's ForewordInsight Into That Which Is: Bremen Lectures 1949 The Point of Reference The Thing Positionality The Danger The TurnBasic Principles of Thinking: Freiburg Lectures 1957 Lecture I Lecture II and Review of Lecture I Lecture III, The Principle of Identity Lecture IV Lecture VEditor's AfterwordGlossaries German-English English-German

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Book SynopsisFocussing on Leibniz's principle: 'nothing is without reason', this book shows that the principle of reason is in fact a principle of being. It also contains discussions of language, translation, reason, objectivity, and technology - as well as readings of Leibniz, Kant, Aristotle, and Goethe.Trade ReviewStarting from Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason . . . , Heidegger reflects on the relation of modern and ancient philosophy and of poetry and thinking. . . . an accurate and readable English translation. * Choice *Recreates the intellectual footwork necessary for Heidegger's leap from the terra cognita of modernity into the existential questions of the age of technology. -- Michael HeimTable of ContentsTranslator's IntroductionForewordLecture CourseLecture OneLecture TwoLecture ThreeLecture FourLecture FiveLecture SixLecture SevenLecture EightLecture NineLecture TenLecture ElevenLecture TwelveLecture ThirteenAddressThe Principle of ReasonBibliographical NotesNotes on the TranslationGlossaries

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Book Synopsis"In Albert Hofstadter's excellent translation, we can listen in as Heidegger clearly and patiently explains ... the ontological difference." Hubert L. Dreyfus, Times Literary SupplementTrade ReviewThis volume belongs in every collection on Heidegger and is required reading for anyone interested in this major thinker. * Religious Studies Review *In Albert Hofstadter's excellent translation, we can listen in as Heidegger clearly and patiently explains . . . the ontological difference. * Times Literary Supplement *Perhaps the most generally accessible text that Heidegger published. . . . The translation is superb. * Key Reporter *For all students and scholars, Basic Problems will provide the "missing link" between Husserl and Heidegger, between phenomenology and Being and Time. * Teaching Philosophy *Table of ContentsTranslator's PrefaceTranslator's IntroductionIntroduction1. Exposition and General Division of the theme2. The concept of philosophy. Philosophy and world-view3. Philosophy as science of being4. The four theses about being and the basic problems of phenomenology5. The character of ontological method. The three basic components of phenomenological method6. Outline of the coursePart One: Critical Phenomenological Discussion of Some Traditional Theses about BeingChapter One: Kant's Thesis: Being Is Not a Real Predicate7. The content of the Kantian thesis8. Phenomenological analysis of the explanation of the concept of being or of existence given by Kant9. Demonstration of the need for a more fundamental formulation of the problem of the thesis and of a more radical foundation of this problemChapter Two: The Thesis of Medeval Ontology Derived from Aristotle: To the Constitution of the Being of a Being There Belong Essence and Existence10. The Content of the thesis and its traditional discussion11. Phenomenological clarification of the problem underlying the second thesis12. Proof of the inadequate foundation of the traditional treatment of the problemChapter Three: The Thesis of Modern Ontology: The Basic Ways of Being Are the Being of Nature (res Extensa) and the Being of Mind (Res Cogitans)13. Characterization of the ontological distinction between res extensa and res cogitans with the aid of the Kantian formulation of the problem14. Phenomenological critique of the Kantian solution and demonstration of the need to pose the question in fundamental principle15. The fundamental problem of the multiplicity of ways of being and of the unity of the concept of being in generalChapter Four: The Thesis of Logic: Every Being, Regardless of Its Particular Way of Being, Can Be Addressed and Talked About by Means of the "Is". The Being of the Copula16. Delineation of the ontological problem of the copula with reference to some characteristic arguments in the course of the histroy of logic17. Being as copula and the phenomenological problem of assertion18. Assertional truth, the idea of truth in general, and its relation to the concept of beingPart Two: The Fundamental Ontological Question of the Meaning of Being in GeneralThe Basic Structures and Basic Ways of BeingChapter One: The Problem of the Ontological Difference19. Time and temporality20. temporality [Zeitlichkeit] and Temporality [Temporalitat]21. Temporality [Temporalitat] and being22. Being and beings. The ontological differenceEditor's EpilogueTranslator's Appendix: A Note on the Da and the DaseinLexicon

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book, which consists of notebook entries by Martin Heidegger in the years 1931–38, casts valuable light on his thinking during the Nazi era. . . Students of Heidegger will find this volume of major assistance in understanding his ideas. It will be of interest also to anyone concerned with Continental philosophy and German intellectual history. * Library Journal *It is informative, but also interesting and at times inspiring, to be privy to early stages of these definitive strands in Heidegger's later thinking, cryptic symbols and all. * Phenomenological Reviews *Rojcewicz's translation. . . is flawless and extremely readable. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *For those who want to understand where Heidegger was 'coming from,' and how, as he saw it, his abstract ideas related to his own times, the Notebooks are indispensable reading. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsTranslator's IntroductionIntimations x Ponderings (II) and DirectivesPonderings and Intimations IIIPonderings IVPonderings VPonderings VIEditor's Afterword

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[This] translation is readable and admirably unobtrusive. Phillip Jacques Braunstein (independent scholar and entrepreneur) renders Heidegger's key terms in recognisable ways. He has a keen sense of when and how to include the original German in order to reveal translation choices and Heidegger's wordplay without sacrificing the flow of the text.2011 * Notre Dame Philosophical Review *[Abiding] within the depths of Holderlin's way of speaking, Heidegger arrives at the crossing between philosophy and poetry: the creative tension or 'essential sway' within language . . . .Sept. 2011 * REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS *Table of ContentsEditor's ForewordTranslator's ForewordIntroductionIntroduction to Philosophy as a Guide to Genuine Thinking through the Thinker Nietzsche and the Poet Hölderlin1. The Impossibility of an Intro-duction to Philosophy2. The Need for a Guide to Become at Home in Genuine Thinking3. The Manifold Ways for a Guide to Genuine Thinking. The Question: "What Now Is?"4. The Consideration of Thinking in its Relation to Poetizing as One of the Ways for a Guide to Genuine Thinking. Nietzsche and Hölderlin5. The Confrontation with Thinking that Encounters us Historically: Nietzsche's Main and Fundamental ThoughtReview (First Draft)Chapter 1The Fundamental Experience and Fundamental Attunement of Nietzsche's Thinking6. The Godlessness and Worldlessness of the Modern Human as Nietzsche's Fundamental Experience a) The "Creation" of the Gods by Humans b) The Scope of the Thought of the Human as the "Creating One," the "Creative" in the Human c) The "Metaphysical" Ground of the Thought of the Creative Human: The Modern Determination of the Essence of the Human d) Thought in a Greek Way e) The Worldlessness of the Modern Human7. The Homelessness of the Modern Human as Nietzsche's Fundamental Attunement a) The Loss of the Previous Home in the Anticipating and Searching for the New Home b) Rationality that Merely Calculates and the Forgetting of the Western Historical DeterminationChapter 2The Creation of the New Home Out of the Will to Power8. The Homeless Ones as the Conquerors and Discoverers of the New Home9. Nietzsche's Main Thought: The Will to Power as Essenz (Essence) of Beings and as the Final Fact. The Veiled Difference between Being and BeingsThinking and PoetizingConsiderations for the LectureIntroductionThinking and Poetizing: Philosophy and Poetry ( and )1. The Comparing of Thinking and Poetizing. Genuine Comparing2. The Measure-Setting of the Decisive Thinkers and Poets for the Assessment of the Essence of Thinking and Poetizing3. The Necessity of a Preparation for the Hearing of Thinking and Poetizing4. Reflection on Thinking and Poetizing and Their Relationship. The Question-Worthy as the Standard for ContemplationSupplementsSecond Version of the Review: Introduction to Philosophy—Thinking and PoetizingReview of pp. 105ff. (Nietzsche. On the Relationship between Thinking and Poetizing)Second Version of the Manuscript pp. 4–5: On Thinking and Poetizing. Considerations for the Lecture (Preliminary Questions for the Reflection on Thinking and Poetizing)Two Fragmentary Versions of Manuscript p. 12a) First Fragmentary Versionb) Second Fragmentary VersionNotes to the Lecture: Introduction to Philosophy—Thinking and Poetizing The Eternal Return of the Same The Will to Power—the Eternal Return of the SameAppendix to Nietzsche's MetaphysicsNotes to Nietzsche's MetaphysicsWho Is Zarathustra? A Confrontation with NietzscheNietzsche's Thus Spoke ZarathustraReturn and ÜbermenschEternal Return of the Same and bermenschZarathustra's PrefaceLecture Announcements: Transcriptions and FacsimilesEditor's Afterword

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Book SynopsisFirst published in German in 1984 as volume 45 of Martin Heidegger's collected works, this book is an English translation of a lecture course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1937-1938. Heidegger's task here is to reassert the question of the essence of truth, not as a problem of logic, but as the basic question of philosophy.Trade ReviewA helpful elucidation of the truth as [Heidegger] sees it. . . . This excellent translation will be of great value to students of Heidegger's thought. * Library Journal *Well suited to the task of beckoning the novice onto the path of Heidegger's most arduous thought. . . . a useful introduction to the thought of one of our most original thinkers. * International Studies in Philosophy *Table of ContentsTranslators' ForewordPreparatory Part: The Essence of Philosophy and the Question of TruthChapter One: Preliminary Interpretation of the Essence of PhilosophyChapter Two: The Question of Truth as a Basic QuestionMain Part: Foundational Issues in the Question of TruthChapter One: The Basic Question of the Essence of Truth as a Historical ReflectionChapter Two: The Question of the Truth (Essentiality) of the EssenceChapter Three: The Laying of the Ground as the Foundation for Grasping an EssenceChapter Four: The Necessity of the Question of the Essence of Truth, on the Basis of the Beginning of the History of TruthChapter Five: The Need and the Necessity of the First Beginning and the Need and the Necessity of an Other Way to Question and to BeginAppendicesThe Question of TruthFrom the First DraftEditor's Afterword

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe translation is admirable and the translators should be congratulated for their successes. * The Heythrop Journal *Arel's and Feuerhahn's translation pays careful heed to Heidegger's linguistic peculiarities while making the text accessible to a non-German readership. * Hegel Bulletin *[T]his is an excellent translation of a difficult and sometimes frustrating work by Heidegger. * Phenomenonological Reviews *[T]he English-speaking world should be thankful to Arel and Feuerhahn for their work in making this volume available.3/16/16 * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsTranslators' Introduction NEGATIVITY. A CONFRONTATION WITH HEGEL APPROACHED FROM NEGATIVITY (1938/39, 1941)I. Negativity. Nothing – abyss – beyng II. The realm of inquiry of negativity III. The differentiation of being and beings IV. Clearing – Abyss – Nothing V. Hegel Appendix Supplement to the title page Supplement to section 1 ELUCIDATION OF THE "INTRODUCTION" TO HEGEL'S "PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT"(1942)Preliminary consideration. On the various roles and positions of the Phenomenologyof Spirit within Hegel's metaphysics I. The grounding of the enactment of the presentation of appearing knowledge(paragraphs 1-4 of the "Introduction") II. The self-presentation of appearing knowledge as the course into the truth of its own essence (paragraphs 5-8 of the "Introduction") III. The criterion of the examination and the essence of the examination in the courseof appearing knowledge (paragraphs 9-13 of the "Introduction") IV. The essence of the experience of consciousness and its presentation(paragraphs 14-15 of the "Introduction") V. Absolute metaphysics (sketches for paragraph 16 of the "Introduction") Appendix. Supplements to I-IV (paragraph 1-15 of the "Introduction") Editor's Afterword German-English GlossaryEnglish-German Glossary

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It would be difficult to overstate the scope of the impact of the English version of Heidegger's Logic. Heidegger carries out nothing short of a fundamental reinterpretation of the meaning of truth and the foundations of logic. This is a fine translation that contributes much to the overall strength of the work." —Theodore George, Texas A&M University"Thomas Sheenan has produced a clear and comprehensive critical edition of Heidegger's Logic that contains a great deal more material than its German counterpart." —Philosophy in Review"Thomas Sheehan has here set the standard of excellence against which all future translations of Heidegger into English must be measured. At long last, the English-speaking reader is spared the unnecessary mystification of the word Dasein. Only Existenz is left untranslated. In his lectures on Holderlin's poem 'Der Ister,' read in the summer of 1942, Heidegger said to his students: 'Tell me what you think about translating and I will tell you who you are.' Professor Sheehan shows us who he is by making accessible the way of thinking of the Heidegger of Sein und Zeit." —Review of Metaphysics

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHaase and Sinclair render the German into a readable and fluent English. They make potentially clunky and jargon laden passages from the original seem natural, and also do a good job of dealing with the specific difficulties thrown up by this text. In particular, they confront well the problem of distinguishing between Historie, the study of the past, and Geschichte, which is the past in general, as it underpins reality. * Phenomenological Reviews *Table of ContentsTranslators' Introduction A. Preliminary Remarks 1. Remarks Preliminary to the Exercises 2. Title 3. The Appearance of our Endeavours B. Section I. Structure. Preparation and Preview of the Guiding Question. Historiology—Life 4. Historiology—The HistoricalOn the Unhistorical/Supra-historical and the Relation to Both 5. Section I. 1 6. Section I. 2 7. Section I 8. Comparing 9. The Determination of the Essence of the Human Being on the Basis of Animalityand the Dividing Line between Animal and Human Being 10. Nietzsche's Procedure. On the Determination of the Historicalfrom the Perspective of Forgetting and Remembering 11. 'Forgetting'—'Remembering'. The Question of 'Historiology' as the Question of the 'Human Being'. The Course of our Inquiry. One Path among Others. 12. Questions Relating to Section I 13. Forgetting 14. Nietzsche on Forgetting 15. 'Forgetting' and 'Remembering' 16. Historiology and 'the' Human Being 17. 'The Human Being'. 'Culture'. The 'People' and 'Genius' 18. Culture—Non-Culture, Barbarism 19. Human Being and Culture and the People 20. Nietzsche's Concept of 'Culture' 21. The Formally General Notion of 'Culture'. 'Culture' and 'Art' 22. 'The' Human Being and a Culture—a 'People' 23. 'Art' (and Culture) 24. Genius in Schopenhauer 25. The People and Great Individuals 26. Great Individuals as the Goal of 'Culture', of the People, of Humanity 27. 'Worldview' and Philosophy C. Section II. The Three Modes of Historiology 1. Monumental Historiology 28. The Question of the Essence of 'the Historical', i.e. of the Essence of Historiology 29. Section II. Structure (7 Paragraphs) D. Section III 30. The Essence of Antiquarian Historiology 31. Critical Historiology E. Nietzsche's Three Modes of Historiology and the Question of Historical Truth 32. 'Life' 33. 'Life'. Advocates, Defamers of Life 34. Historiology and Worldview 35. How is the Historical Determined? 36. The Belonging Together of the three Modes of Historiology and Historical Truth 37. The Three Modes of Historiology as Modes of the Remembering Relation to the Past 38. Section II F. The Human Being. Historiology and History. Temporality 39. Historiology—the Human Being—History (Temporality) 40. The Historical and the Unhistorical G. 'Historiology'. Historiology and History. Historiology and the Unhistorical 41. 'The Unhistorical' 42. The Un-historical 43. The Un-historical 44. History and Historiology 45. Nietzsche as 'Historian' 46. Historiology and History 47. 'Historiology' 48. History and Historiology H. Section IV 49. On Section IV ff., Hints 50. Section IV 51. Section IV (Paragraphs 1-6) I. Section V 52. Section V 53. Section V, Divided into Five Parts 54. Oversaturation with Historiology and with Knowledge Generally J. Concerning Section V and VI: Truth. 'Justice'. 'Objectivity'. Horizon. 55. Life—'Horizon' 56. Objectivity and 'Horizon' 57. Justice 58. Justice—Truth 59. Life—and Horizon 60. Beings as a Whole—the Human Being 61. 'Truth' and the 'True' 62. The True and Truth 63. Truth and the Human Being 64. Will (Drive) to 'Truth' 65. Nietzsche on the 'Will to Truth' K. On Sections V and VI. Historiology and Science (Truth). (cf. J. Truth. 'Justice'. 'Objectivity'. Horizon) 66. The Human Being—The Gods 67. Why the Primacy of 'Science' in Historiology? 68. 'Positivism' 69. Historiology 70. Historiology and Science 71. The Impact of Historiology on the Past 72. Truth 73. Historiology as Science 74. 'Historiology' and 'Perspective' and 'Objectivity' L. Section VI (Justice and Truth) 75. Section VI 76. Section VI (Paras. 1-7) 77. 'Objectivity' and 'Justice' 78. On the Structure of Section VI as a Whole 79. Nietzsche's Question of a 'Higher Justice' 80. Morality and Metaphysics 81. Justice—Truth—Objectivity—Life 82. Justice as 'Virtue' 83. Justice—Truth 84. Truth and Art (Cognition) 85. On Nietzsche's Treatise "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense" 86. Truth and 'Intellect'—Justice 87. Truth and 'Intellect' 88. Nietzsche's Conception of Truth (Determined from the Ground Up by Western Metaphysics) 89. Justice and Truth 90. Truth, and Science Conditioned by Worldview 91. Truth and Science 92. Historiology Science Truth—Justice M. Nietzsche's Metaphysics 93. Nietzsche's Metaphysics 94. 'Life' in the Two Senses of World and Human Being N. 'Life' 95. Nietzsche's Projection of Beings as a Whole and of the Human Being as 'Life' 96. Disposition 97. Recapitulation According to the Basic Questions 98. Concluding Remark 99. Nietzsche's Early Characterisation of his own Thinkingas 'Inversion of Platonism' 100. 'Life' (ego vivo) 101. The Philosophical Concept 102. On the Critical Meditation 103. Decisive Questioning 104. 'Life' O. The Question of the Human Being: 'Language'. 'Happiness'. Language (cf. 15, 'Forgetting' and 'Remembering') 105. Language as Use and Using-Up of Words 106. Word and Meaning 107. 'Happiness' and Da-Sein 108. 'Happiness' P. The Fundamental Stance of the Second Untimely Meditation 109. The Guiding Demand of the Meditation 110. Guiding Stance 111. Concept Formation in Philosophy and the Sciences 112. 'Life' 113. 'Life' 114. 'Life' 115. Nietzsche's Fundamental Experience of 'life' and Opposition to 'Darwinism' 116. Life 117. 'Life' 118. 'Life' 119. 'Life' 120. 'Life' 121. 'Life' 122. Life and 'adaptation' 123. Life—Health and Truth 124. Life as 'Dasein' 125. 'Life' and 'Death' Q. Animality and Life. Animal—. The 'Living Body'. cf. Lectures of Winter Semester 1929/30 126. Milieu and Environment (World) 127. Soul—Living Body—Body 128. Embodying 129. The Animal has Memory 130. Animal (Questions) 131. Delimitation of the Essence of 'Life' (Animality) 132. Animality R. The Differentiation of Human Being and Animal 133. The Un-historical and the Historical 134. The Unhistorical—(of the Human Being) 135. Animal and Human Being S. 'Privation' 136. What Happens to us as 'Privation' 137. 'Privation'—Inter-ruption T. Structure and Composition of the Second Untimely Meditation 138. On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life Addenda I. Seminar Reports II. Summary by Hermann Heidegger III. Editorial Postscript

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Book SynopsisA crucial work for understanding a major turning point in Heidegger's thought.Trade ReviewWhoever thought that Heidegger . . . has no surprises left in him had better read this new volume. If its rhetoric is "hard and heavy" its thought is even harder and essentially more daring than Heideggerians ever imagined Heidegger could be. -- David Farrell Krell * DePaul University *This authoritative translation is essential to any Heidegger collection. * Choice *In this text, which is crucial to understanding the transition from Heidegger's earlier to his later thinking, readers will find a helpful overview of Heidegger's conception of metaphysics . . . a brilliant phenomenological analysis of boredom . . . an investigation of the essence of life and animality . . . and an analysis of the structure of the propositional statement . . . * Review of Metaphysics *

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Book SynopsisA crucial work for understanding the full maturity of Heidegger's thoughtTrade ReviewThis highly influential collection of four seminars conducted between 1966 and 1973 was first published in French transcription in 1976, the year Heidegger died. Their influence on French philosophy and thinking during the late 1970s and 1980s cannot be exaggerated, for, at the moment when the work of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, and others was first coming to prominence, it now had access to Heidegger's clearest articulations of his later thinking. Much of deconstruction and poststructuralist thought bears the formative imprint of these seminars. Heidegger himself oversaw their German translation (published in 1977 and again in 1986, in a collected edition), from which this long-awaited English translation by Mitchell and Raffoul has been made. Their brilliant translation will prove indispensable for theory and criticism in English. Heidegger breathes new life into the ancient Greek meaning of presencing, which is the keynote of his call for the abandonment of all modern realisms, idealisms, and materialisms and for a return to an experience of consciousness that sees itself as part of phenomenal presencing, rather than as something separate and detached from the world. On Kant, Marx, and the meaning of technology, these seminars contain some of Heidegger's most thoughtful insights and arguments. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; lower-level undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *Overall Four Seminars is essentially a glimpse into Heidegger's way of working with students. Its pages recount his effortless command of the sweep of the history of Western philosophy from Anaximander to Husserl and Wittgenstein, his modesty about the accomplishments of Being and Time fifty years after writing the book, his conviction about the fundamental philosophical importance of phenomenological method . . . . Genuine teaching, then, is the demonstration of listening and thinking, not the presentation of content.26.1 2005 * Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal *[This] brilliant translation will prove indispensable for theory and criticism in English. . . . On Kant, Marx, and the meaning of technology, these seminars contain some of Heidegger's most thoughtful insights and arguments. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: Translators' ForewordSeminar in Le Thor 1966Seminar in Le Thor 1968Seminar in Le Thor 1969Seminar in Zähringen 1973German Translator's Afterword to Vier SeminareMartin Heidegger, "The Provenance of Thinking"Martin Heidegger, "Parmenides..."German Editor's Afterword to Collected Works, volume 15Endnotes on the TranslationGlossary German-English English-German

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Book Synopsis“Being and Time changed the course of philosophy.” —Richard Rorty, New York Times Book Review“Heidegger’s masterwork.” —The EconomistWhat 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

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of these lecture courses for an understanding of the development of Heidegger's thinking; yet in the very act of illuminating this development, they also throw new light on many of the most fundamental ideas figuring in 'Being and Time' itself. This book will be essential reading for anyone looking for the argumentation behind Heidegger's unique conception of human existence."--Ian Lyne, University of DurhamTable of ContentsTranslator's Foreword Publisher's Note I. The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview Preliminary Remarks Introduction Part I. The Idea of Philosophy as Primordial Science 1. The Search for a Methodological Way 2. Critique of Teleological-Critical Method Part II. Phenomenology as Pre-Theoretical Primordial Science 1. Analysis of the Structure of Experience 2. The Problem of Presuppositions 3. Primordial Science as Pre-Theoretical Science II. Phenomenology and Transcendental Philosophy of Value Introduction Part I. Historical Presentation of the Problem 1. The Genesis of Philosophy of Value as the Cultural Philosophy of the Present 2. Windelband's Grounding of Modern Transcendental Philosophy of Value 3. The Further Development of Value-Philosophy by Rickert Part II. Critical Considerations \ Appendix I: On the Nature of the University and Academic Study Appendix II: The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview Short Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisIncludes Heidegger's lectures, which review 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.Trade ReviewWith thematic trajectories pointing both toward and beyond Being and Time, this translation . . . is of enormous significance for students of the development of Heidegger's early thought. -- Daniel O. Dahlstrom * Boston University *John van Buren's translation should be read by anyone looking for an access point into Heidegger's work because of his faithful and comprehensible way of rendering this difficult text. Any careful reader of Heidegger who is looking to better understand his work should also read this translation if for no other reason than to see, in nuce, the beginnings of Heidegger's thought. Basically, anyone reading Heidegger should be reading this text.Volume 15 Issue 7 2010 * European Legacy *

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Book SynopsisA 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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Book SynopsisPart of a series of lectures, this work analyzes the philosophies of both Nietzsche and Heidegger.

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Book SynopsisA new translation of Heidegger's monumental workTrade Review[This book is] an impressive achievement. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsTranslators' IntroductionI. ProspectII. The ReasoningIII. The InterplayIV. The LeapV. The Groundinga. Da-sein and the projection of beingb. Da-seinc. The essence of truthd. Time-space as the abyssal grounde. The essential occurrence of truth as a shelteringVI. The Future OnesVII. The Last GodVIII. BeyngEditor's AfterwordGerman-English GlossaryEnglish-German GlossaryGreek-English GlossaryLating-English GlossaryBibliography

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Book SynopsisOffers the English-speaking reader intimate contact with one of the most basic Heideggerian conceptsTrade ReviewWhat is most remarkable about Richard Rojcewicz's translation is its timeliness. . . . As a translation, the volume is better than fine and it has no doubt benefitted from Rojcewicz and Vallega-Neu's translation of Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis). * Continental Philosophy Review *The Event takes the reader who is willing to follow the intricacies of Heidegger's text, into dark and impenetrable dimensions of thought and experience at the limits of language and intelligibility. * Review of Metaphysics *Table of ContentsTranslator's IntroductionForewordsSophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, vv. 73-74.This "presentation" does not describe and reportThe destiny of beyng devolves upon the thinkersThe dispensation of beyng in the event toward the beginningNot only throughout all the worldIn regard to Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event)I. The first beginningA. The first beginning B. C. AnaximanderD. Western thinkingReflexionDa-seynE. Under way toward the first beginningThe preparation for the thinking of beyng in its historicalitySo as to remain on the bridgeF. The first beginningG. The first beginningH. The advancement of the first beginning into the start of metaphysicsII. The resonatingA. The resonatingVistaB. The signs of the transitionThe passing byThe in-between of the history of beyngC. Modernity and the WestD. MetaphysicsE. The will to willingIII. The differenceIV. The twisting freeV. The eventVI. The eventVII. The event and the human beingVIII. Da-seynA. The human being as understood with respect to the history of being andDa-seyn (steadfastness)B. Da-seynTime-spaceDa-sein and "reflexion"Steadfastness and dispositionC. Disposition and Da-seinThe pain of the question-worthiness of beyngIX. The other beginningX. Directives to the eventA. The enduring of the difference (distinction)Experience as the pain "of" the departureB. The thinking of the history of beyngThe enduring of the difference (distinction)The care of the abyssThe timber trailThinking and the wordC. Toward a first elucidation of the basic words"Truth" (With regard to: The saying of the first beginning)The "essence" and the "essential occurrence"History and historialityXI. The thinking of the history of beyng(Thinking and poetizing)A. The experience of that which is worthy of questioningThe leapThe confrontationThe clarification of actionThe knowledge of thinkingB. The beginning and heedfulnessC. The saying of the beginningD. Thinking and knowingThinking and poetizingE. Poetizing and thinkingF. The poet and the thinkerG. "Commentary" and "interpretation"Editor's AfterwordGerman-English GlossaryEnglish-German Glossary

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Book SynopsisComing at a crucial time in his career, this title illustrates Martin 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.Trade Review[This translation], including a clear and concise introduction and useful glossaries, attains both accuracy and clarity, rarely faltering in its choice of words. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Translated with skill and precision, these lectures . . . not only present the most penetrating analysis of two of Hölderlin's most significant hymns but also constitute Heidegger's most illuminating and fully argued encounter with Hölderlin. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsTranslators' ForewordPreliminary RemarkIntroduction 1. Outline of the Beginning, Manner of Procedure, and Approach of the Lecture CoursePart One"Germania"Chapter OnePreliminary Reflections: Poetry and Language 2. Provisional Path of Approach to the Poem as a Piece of Text 3. Entering the Domain in which Poetry Unfolds its Power 4. Concerning the Essence of Poetry 5. The Question Concerning the 'We' in the Turbulence of the Dialogue 6. Determining the 'We' from out of the Horizon of the Question of Time 7. The Linguistic Character of PoetryChapter TwoThe Fundamental Attunement of Poetizing and the Historicality of Dasein 8. Unfolding the Fundamental Attunement 9. Historical Time and Fundamental Attunement 10. The Locale of Dasein Founded in "Germania" within the Horizon of the Heraclitean Thought11. Transitional Overview and Summary: Revisiting the Domains Opened Up Thus Far as a Way of Determining More Precisely the Intent of the Lecture CoursePart Two"The Rhine"Transitional RemarkThe Question Concerning What is 'Innermost' in a Poetic Work as a Question of the Opening Up and Founding of Beyng in the Each Time New Prevailing of its Fundamental AttunementChapter OneThe Demigods as Mediating Middle between Gods and Humans. The Fundamental Attunement of the Poem. The Beyng of the Demigods and the Calling of the Poet12. Thinking the Essence of the Demigods in the Founding Projection of the Poet13. Strophe I. The Point of Departure for the Telling, and the Composure through which it is Experienced. The Apprehending of a Destiny14. Strophes II and III. The River Rhine as Destiny. Hearing its Origin and Assuming its VocationChapter TwoA More Incisive Review. Poetizing and Historical Dasein15. The Task of the Lecture Course: Entering the Domain in Which Poetry Unfolds its Power, and the Opening Up of its Actuality16. The Fundamental Approach in which our Interpretation Moves, Taking "Germania" as our Point of Departure17. The Interpretation in Detail. The River Rhine as Demigod18. Interim Reflection on the Metaphysics of PoetizingChapter ThreeThat which has Purely Sprung Forth as Strife in the Middle of Beyng19. Strophe IV. The Enigma of what has Purely Sprung Forth and the Origin of Poetizing20. Strophes V to IX. Unfolding the Essence of what has Purely Sprung Forth in the Conflict between Springing Forth and Having Sprung-Forth21. Strophes X Through XIII. Thinking the Beyng of the Demigods Starting From the Gods and From Humans22. Strophe XIV. Retaining the Mystery. The Thinking of the Poet Grounded in the Poetizing of the Thinker23. Strophe XV. The Poet as the Other24. The Metaphysical Locale of Hölderlin's PoetizingEditor's EpilogueTranslators' NotesGlossaryEnglish—German German—English

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA review cannot do justice to the entire richness of this lecture course . . . . The present course is thus in every sense a transition: harking back to the temporal analyses of Being from the period of 'Being and Time' and anticipating the increasing preoccupation with the Presocratics and with Greek tragedy that would mark Heidegger's work from the mid-1930s onward.10/4/16 * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsContentsTranslator's Introduction The beginning of Western philosophy Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides Part One The dictum of Anaximander of Miletus, 6th-5th Century Introduction1. The mission and the dictum Chapter I The first phase of the interpretation A. The first section of the statement2. The theme of the dictum: beings as a whole B. The second section of the statement3. Beings in the relation of compliance and noncompliance C. The third section of the statement4. Being and time Chapter II The second phase of the interpretation5. The unitary content of the pronouncement on the basis of its central core Chapter III The other dictum6. The sovereign source of beings as the empowering power of appearance Part Two Interposed considerations7. Four objections to the interpretation8. The negative relation to the beginning9. Meditation on the "current situation"10. The grounding utterance of Being11. The actual asking of the question of Being12. Review of the linguistic usage13. The basic question of existence14. Commentary on our concept of existence15. The full rendering of the understanding of Being16. The liberation toward freedom17. Transition to Parmenides: the first explicit and coherent unfolding of the question of Being Part Three The "didactic poem" of Parmenides of Elea 6th-5th Century18. Introduction19. Interpretation of fragment 1. Preparation for the question of Being20. Interpretation of fragments 4 and 521. Interpretation of fragments 6 and 722. Interpretation of fragment 823. The fragments 9, 12, 13, 10, 11, 14, 16, 19 (in the order of their interpretation) Conclusion24. The inceptual question of Being; the law of philosophy AppendixDrafts and plans for the lecture courseEditor's afterwordGerman-English GlossaryEnglish-German Glossary

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[Heidegger's] account of the history of beyng is put to the test by its ability to provide insight into the most important social and political events of his day — including the rise of fascism and communism in Europe, the outbreak of global wars, and the horrific genocidal turn of anti-Semitic hostilities in Germany. This makes the book essential reading for anyone interested in Heidegger's later work. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Overall, the updated translation showcases what is a central and often-overlooked text in Heidegger's oeuvre, with perspicuity and illumination. Maintaining a style that shows just why contemporary readers should return to this text for themes that are arguably as relevant, if not more so, to the modern world than they were at the time when Heidegger was writing. * Phenomenological Reviews *Table of ContentsTranslators' IntroductionThe History of Beyng (1938-40)The History of Beyng. Part II. The History of BeyngII. Contra-diction and RefutationIII. Passage. The History of BeyngIV. The Consummation of MetaphysicsBeing's AbandonmentV. To KoinonVI. The Sustainment. The Essence of PowerThe NecessaryVII. The Essence of History. "Commencement." "Beyng"VIII. Beyng and the Last GodIX. Essence of HistoryX. The OwnedThe History of Beyng. Part IIXI. The Configuration of SayingXII. The History of Beyng (Da-sein)XIII. Beyng-Historical ThinkingKoinonOut of the History of Beyng (1939-40)o Koivov. Out of the History of BeyngDraft for oivov. On the History of BeyngAppendixAdditional Materials for The History of Beyng (1938-40)Additional Materials for . Out of the History of Beyng (1939-40)Editor's EpilogueGerman—English GlossaryEnglish—German Glossary

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe two lecture courses collected in the volume entitled Being and Truth were delivered during Heidegger's tenure as the first Nazi rector of the University of Freiburg and thus in his darkest hour as a philosopher. . . When reading Heidegger's political statements, which frame and punctuate his otherwise thought-provoking philosophical analyses . . . what is most striking, ultimately, is Heidegger's utter blindness with respect to the true nature of an odious and destructive worldview and his systematic yet delusional projection of a profound transformation of Europe's destiny and a new dawn into the darkest episode of German history.6/3/11 * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsTranslators' ForewordTHE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF PHILOSOPHYSummer Semester 1933Introduction: The Fundamental Question of Philosophy and the Fundamental Happening of Our HistoryMain Part: The Fundamental Question and Metaphysics: Preparation for a Confrontation with HegelChapter One. The Development, Transformation, and Christianization of Traditional MetaphysicsChapter Two. The System of Modern Metaphysics and the First of Its Primary Determining Grounds: The MathematicalChapter Three. Determination by Christianity and the Concept of Mathematical-Methodological Grounding in the Metaphysical Systems of ModernityChapter Four. Hegel: The Completion of Metaphysics as Theo-logicConclusionON THE ESSENCE OF TRUTHWinter Semester 1933-1934Introduction: The Question of Essence as Insidious and UnavoidablePart One. Truth and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Allegory of the Cave in Plato's RepublicChapter One. The Four Stages of the Happening of TruthChapter Two. The Idea of the Good and UnconcealmentChapter Three. The Question of the Essence of UntruthPart Two. An Interpretation of Plato's Theaetetus With Regard to the Question of the Essence of UntruthChapter One. Preliminary Considerations on the Greek Concept of KnowledgeChapter Two. Theaetetus's Answers to the Question of the Essence of Knowledge and their RejectionChapter Three. The Question of the Possibility of Appendix INotes and drafts for the lecture course of Summer Semester 1933Appendix IINotes and drafts for the lecture course of Winter Semester 1933-1934Editor's AfterwordGerman-English Glossary

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBret Ellis . . . provides a thoughtful, clear and highly readable translation of these conversations. He includes key German terms in the text and occasionally provides a brief discussion of the resonances of certain German terms likely to be unfamiliar to even those readers with second language German. His informative introduction places the work in the context of Heidegger's biography and philosophy as well as within the work's social and historical context. * Philosophy in Review *Table of ContentsTranslator's Foreword1. 'Aí: A Three-way Conversation on a Country Path between a Scientist, a Scholar, and a Guide2. The Teacher Meets the Tower Warden at the Door to the Tower Stairway3. Evening Conversation: In a Prisoner of War Camp in Russia, between a Younger and an Older ManEditor's AfterwordGlossaries

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This faithful and readable translation by William McNeill and Julia Ireland serves as a critical orientation to interpreting Heidegger's later thought, which has become the focus of a great deal of scholarly interest. In Heidegger's own words, Hölderlin's poetry is 'absolutely essential' to understanding his later thought."—Christopher D. Merwin, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsTranslators' ForewordPRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONSPreparation for Hearing the Word of the Poetizing1. What the Lecture Course Does Not Intend. On Literary-Historiographical Research and the Arbitrary Interpretation of Poetry2. The Attempt to Think the Word Poetized by Hölderlin3. That Which is Poetized in the Word of Essential Poetizing 'Poetizes Over and Beyond' the Poet and Those Who Hear this Word4. The Essential Singularity of Hölderlin's Poetizing is Not Subject to Any Demand for Proof5. The Poetizing Word and Language as Means of Communication. Planetary Alienation in Relation to the WordReview 1) 'Thinking' That Which is Poetized2) Hearing That Which is Poetized is Hearkening: Waiting for the Coming of the Inceptual Word6. The Univocity of 'Logic' and the Wealth of the Genuine Word Out of the Inexhaustibility of the Commencement7. Remark on the Editions of Hölderlin's WorksMAIN PART"Remembrance"8. A Word of Warning about Merely Admiring the Beauty of the Poem9. Establishing a Preliminary Understanding About 'Content' and What is Poetized in the PoemReview1) The Wealth of the Poetizing Word2) Poetizing and Thinking as Historical Action3) The Transformation of the Biographical in That Which is Poetized10. That Which is Poetized in the Poetizing and the 'Content' of the Poem are Not the SamePart OneEntry into the Realm of the Poem as Word11. The Beginning and Conclusion of the Poem12. Concerning Language: The Poetizing Word and Sounding Words13. Language in Our Historical Moment14. Preliminary Consideration of the Unity of the PoemReview15. Poetizing and the Explanation of Nature in Modernity. On the Theory of 'Image' and 'Metaphor'16. "The Northeasterly blows." The Favor of Belonging to the Vocation of Poet17. The "Greeting." On the Dangerous Addiction to Psychological-Biographical Explanation18. Norbert von Hellingrath on "Hölderlin's Madness." Commemoration of von Hellingrath19. Hölderlin's De-rangement as Entering the Range of a Different Essential Locale20. The "Going" of the Northeasterly. The "Greeting" of the Poet's Going with ItReview21. Transition From the First to the Second Strophe. The Greeting Thinking-in-the-Direction-Of as the Letting Be of the Greeted. The Greeted Thinks Its Way To the Poet22. In the Unity of That Which is Greeted, Gathered by the Poet's Greeting, the Day's Work and Stead of Human Dwelling ArisePart Two"Holidays" and "Festival" in Hölderlin's Poetizing23. Preliminary Hints From Citing 'Passages' In the PoetryReview24. Celebrating as Pausing From Work and Passing Over into Reflection upon the Essential25. The Radiance of the Essential Within Celebration. Play and Dance26. The Essential Relation Between Festival and History. The "Bridal Festival" of Humans and Gods27. The Festive as Origin of Attunements. Joy and Mournfulness: The Epigram "Sophocles"Review1) Celebration as Becoming Free in Belonging to the Inhabitual2) Improbable Celebration in the Echo of What is 'Habitual' in a Day: The First Strophe of the Elegy "Bread and Wine"3) "The Festival" and the Appropriative Event. The Festival of the Day of History in Greece. Hölderlin and Nietzsche28. The Greeting of the Women. Their Role in Preparing the Festival. The Women of Southern France and the Festival that Once Was in GreeceReview29. Transition as Reconciliation and Equalization30. "Night": Time-Space of a Thinking Remembering the Gods that Once Were Transition in Receiving the Downgoing and Preparing the Dawn31. Gods and Humans as Fitting Themselves to What is Fitting. That Which is Fitting and Fate32. How Fate is Viewed Within the Calculative Thinking of Metaphysics, and "Fate" in Hölderlin's Sense33. The Festival as Equalizing the While for Fate34. The Transition from What Once Was in Greece into That Which is to Come: The Veiled Truth of the Hymnal PoetizingReview1) The Provenance of the Poetized Transition. The "Demigods" Called into the Transition. Hegel and Hölderlin2) What is Fitting for Humans and Gods is the Holy. The Fitting of the Jointure as Letting-be3) Fitting as Releasing into the Search for Essence and the Loss of Essence. Errancy and Evil4) The Temporal Character of the "While," and the Metaphysical Concept of Time35. "Lulling Breezes": Sheltering in the Origin, the Ownmost of Humans and Gods. "Golden Dreams"36. Interim Remark Concerning Scientific Explanations of Dreams37. The Dream. That Which Is Dreamlike as the Unreal or Nonexistent38. Greek Thought on the Dream. PindarReview39. The Dream as Shadow-like Appearing of Vanishing into the Lightless. Presencing and Absencing40. The Possible as Presencing of Vanishing from, and as Appearing of Arrival Within 'Reality' (Beyng)41. Hölderlin's Treatise "Becoming in Dissolution." Dream as Bringing the Possible and Preserving the Transfigured ActualPart ThreeThe Search for the Free Use of One's Own42. Hesitant Awe Before the Transition onto "Slow Footbridges"Review43. Greece and Germania: The Banks and Sides of the Transition Toward Learning What is Historically One's Own44. One's Own as the Holy of the Fatherland, Inaccessible to Theologies and Historiographical Sciences. The "Highest"45. The Transition From the Second to the Third Strophe. Grounding in the Homely46. Interim Remark Concerning Three Misinterpretations of Hölderlin's Turn to the "Fatherland"47. Learning the Appropriation of One's Own48. What is Their Own for the Germans: "The Clarity of Presentation"49. The Drunkenness of Higher Reflection and Soberness of Presentation in the Word50. "Dark Light": That Which is to be Presented in the Free Use of One's Own51. The Danger of Slumber Among Shadows. "Soulful" Reflection Upon the Holy in the FestivalPart FourThe Dialogue with the Friends as Fitting Preparation for the Festival52. "Dialogue" in the Commonplace Understanding and in Hölderlin's Poetic Word Usage53. The "Opinion" of the "Heart" in the Dialogue: The Holy54. Listening in the Dialogue to Love and Deed, which, as Celebration, Ground the Festival in Advance55. The Endangering of the Poetic Dialogue of Love and Deeds by Chatter56. The Poetic Dialogue as "Remembrance"57. The Question of Where the Friends Are, and the Essence of Future Friendship58. The Friends' Being Shy to Go to the Source59. "Source" and "River." The Wealth of the Origin60. The Initial Appropriation of "Wealth" on the Poets' Voyage Across the Ocean into the Foreign61. The "Year Long" Learning of the Foreign on the Ocean Voyage of a Long Time Without Festival62. The Singular Remembrance of the Locale of the Friends and of the Fitting that is to be Poetized63. The Word Regarding the River that Goes Backwards: The Shy Intimation of the Essence of Commencement and History64. The Passage to the Foreign, "Bold Forgetting" of One's Own, and the Return Home65. The Founding of the Coming Holy in the WordAPPENDIXThe Interpretive Structure for the Said PoemsEditor's EpilogueTranslators' NotesGerman—English GlossaryEnglish—German Glossary

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Book SynopsisDuns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaningis 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 theGrammatica 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 iTrade Review"Heidegger's early engagement with medieval philosophy via neo-Kantian logic foreshadows his later explorations of being, truth, and meaning. He concludes by challenging himself to grapple with "historical spirit." Bagchee and Gower's meticulous translation brings this formative phase of Heidegger's thought to English-speaking readers."—Richard Polt, Xavier University"Heidegger's Habilitationsschrift, submitted to the University of Freiburg in 1915, at the age of twenty-six, takes up themes central to scholastic ontology and logic: the categories of reality and the differentiations of meaning. Quite traditional topics, these are not themes that one might suspect would help open the way to the revolutionary work of 1927, Being and Time. And yet: here one sees the phenomenological gifts already at work in the young Heidegger. Here one finds the early formulations of the hermeneutics of facticity and the first hints of the notion of formal indication – one finds the earliest signs of the revolutionary work to come. Ably translated, this text offers insights into key problems of scholasticism as well as into the genesis of the philosophical revolutionary that Heidegger would soon become."—Dennis Schmidt, Western Sydney University"With this careful and scholarly translation of Heidegger's postdoctoral thesis, Bagchee and Gower have provided an indispensible resource for anyone seeking to understand the trajectory of Heidegger's early thinking. A splendid achievement."—William McNeill, DePaul UniversityTable of ContentsTranslator's PrefaceAcknowledgmentsForeword to the First Edition of Frühe Schriften (1972)Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning ForewordIntroduction: The Necessity of Examining Scholasticism from the Perspective of the History of ProblemsPart I: The Doctrine of CategoriesFirst Chapter: The Unum: Mathematical, Natural, and Metaphysical RealitySecond Chapter: The Verum: Logical and Psychic RealityThird Chapter: Linguistic Form and Linguistic Content: The Domain of MeaningPart II: The Doctrine of MeaningFirst Chapter: Meaning and Meaning Function: Principles of the Doctrine of MeaningSecond Chapter: The Doctrine of the Forms of MeaningsConclusion: The Problem of CategoriesAuthor's NoticeBibliographical ReferencesEditor's AfterwordEnglish-German GlossaryGerman-English GlossaryIndex of NamesSubject Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Texts such as On Inception are among Heidegger's most difficult, owing in equal parts to the liminal and exacting character of his thinking therein and the experimental vocabulary with which he articulates such thinking. Hanly does a truly admirable job of rendering Heidegger's often abstruse German syntax into elegant English prose, without, however, doing violence to Heidegger's always difficult and sometimes terse manner of expression. Hanly capably threads the needle between fidelity to Heidegger's necessary opacity and a commitment to bringing the German text into comprehensible English."—S. Montgomery Ewegen, author of The Way of the Platonic SocratesTable of ContentsPrefaceI. The Incipience of Inception1. What Does "Inception" Say?2. The Incipience of Inception3. The Remoteness of Inception4. "Inception" and "Event"5. Beyng?6. Beyng? The Event of Inception as the Receding into the Parting7. The Parting8. Inception and Veiling and Event9. Inception and Uprising10. Beyng as Remaining11. The Inexplicability of Beyng12. The Event of Inception and the Location of the Essence of the Human13. Being and the Historically Human14. The Telling of Difference15. How Saying Becomes the Acknowledgment of the Event of Inception16. The Modern Essential Sojourn of Planetarism and Idiocy17. The Guide-words of Beyng18. The Essence of Beyng19. The Incipience of Inception20. The Remaining21. Inception is the Dignity of Beyng22. The Ultimate Step of Thinking23. Inception and Concealment24. "Concealment"25. Inception and Truth26. Beyng and Singularity and Truth27. The First Inception28. Inception29. Event30. Inception and Intimacy31. Beyng32. Inception and the Nothing33. Event and the Nothing34. Inception—Beyng—Beings35. Beyng Is Telling36. The Other Inception37. Inception and Άλήθεια38. The Inceptions39. Inception40. Of Inception41. Of Inception42. "Inception"43. The Inceptive Essence of Beyng44. Inception (Peculiar Property)45. Inception and Advancing-away46. Inception and Truth47. Inception and Truth48. The Inceptions49. Truth and Straying50. Unconcealment (Ἀλήθεια)51. The Inceptions52. The Inceptions53. The Inceptions54. The Inceptions55. The Inceptions56. Beyng as the Other InceptionThe Differentiation and the Difference57. The Differentiation58. The Differentiation59. Differentiation and Inception60. The Differentiation61. The Open That Is Unnamed in the Differentiation62. The Overcoming of Metaphysics is the Abandonment of the Differentiation63. The Differentiation and the "As"The Inception as Receding64. Receding65. Receding and Bestowal66. Inception and Receding67. Why and How Does Receding Belong to Inception?68. Receding and Beings69. The First Inception and the Receding70. Receding and the Other Inception Crossing and Receding71. RecedingII. Inception and Inceptive Thinking the Creative Thinking of Inception72. The Few Must Restore the Inception into the Inceptive73. Inception74. Onto-Historical Thinking75. The Onto-Historical Thinking of Inception76. The Claim of Onto-Historical Thinking77. From Inception78. Outline79. Outline of the Telling of Inception80. From Inception81. From Inception82. From Inception (The Belonging into the Clearing of Beyng)83. From Inception84. The Relation to Being85. From Inception86. Dialogue in the Inception87. Inception88. The Inception and the Distinctive Mark of Western History89. Onto-Historical Thinking90. Inceptive Thinking in the Crossing into the Other Inception91. The More Inceptive Questioning92. The Leap93. The Inceptiveness of Inception94. The Thinking ahead into the Inception95. Claim and Response96. Inception and the SimpleIII. Event and Being ThereA. The Event97. Event and BeingsB. Event and Dis-propriation98. The Beingless and Beings. Dis-propriation99. [Beings] as the BeinglessC. Being-There100. Being-There101. Being-There and Vibration102. Being and the Human103. Being-There104. Being-There105. Being-There106. Being-There107. Being-There108. Being-There and the Human109. The Other Inception110. Divinity in the Other Inception111. Event, Proper Domain, Indigence112. Being-There and Attunement113. Attunements and Beyng114. Attunement115. "Anxiety"116. Beyng—Being-There—the Disposition117. Awe118. The History of the Human119. The Human and Being as "Will"120. The Onto-Historical Essence of DeathD. Inter-venings121. Inter-venings122. The Recollective Thinking ahead into the Inception123. Inceptive Thinking124. Onto-Historical Thinking as Inceptive125. Sheltering Concealment and Being-There. Impulse126. Being and Time—Being-There127. "Analysis" and "Analytic of Dasein"IV. Interpretation and the PoetA. Remarks on Interpreting128. Interpretation129. The Interpreting130. The Interpreting131. Interpretation132. Interpretation133. The "Circle-structure" of Interpreting134. Approach to Interpretation135. Meaningfulness of Poetry and Ambiguity of InterpretationB. The Poet (Hölderlin) in the Other Inception136. Thinking ahead into the Inception137. Whither?138. The Holy and Beyng139. Towards the Interpretation of the Hymns140. Hölderlin141. Poet and Thinker142. Thinking and Poetizing143. The Claim of an InterpretationC. Hölderlin-Interpretation144. Towards the Interpretation of Hölderlin145. The "Interpretation"146. The Interpretation of Hölderlin's Hymns147. The Interpretation as Pledge-saying148. Interpretation Affirming the Saying and the Telling149. Hölderlin the Poet of Poets150. Hölderlin151. Interpretation (the "Circle")V. The History of Beyng152. The History of Beyng153. The History of Beyng154. Being "Is" Inception and thus History155. The History of Beyng156. The Abjection of the AgeHistory and Historiography157. The Fissure of the Incepting of the Inceptions158. The History of Being and "World"—History159. Being and History160. History161. History162. The Essence of History163. History and Historiography164. History and Historiography165. To What Extent "Encounter" Belongs to the Essence of Historical Beings166. History167. The Crossing (History and Inception)168. History Inceptuality and Historicity Decision of the Essence of Truth169. History170. History171. Inception—Advancing-away—Receding—CrossingVI. Being and Time and Inceptive Thinking as the History of Beyng172. Being and Time173. Onto-Historical Thinking and Absolute Metaphysics174. German Idealism and Onto-Historical Thinking175. Being and Time176. "Being and Time" and Inceptive ThinkingEditor's AfterwordGerman-English GlossaryEnglish-German Glossary

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Book SynopsisEmbarks upon a provisional description of what author calls "Dasein," the field in which both being and time become manifest. This title analyzes Dasein in its everydayness in a deepening sequence of terms: being-in-the-world, worldhood, and care as the being of Dasein.Trade Review" ... an excellent translation of an extremely important book." - The Modern Schoolman

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Book SynopsisTrade Review" . . . the most detailed statement of Heidegger's reflections on logic available in English." —Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal "Heim's excellent translation is eminently readable." —Canadian Philosophical Review "All in all, an extraordinary book." —David Farrell KrellTable of ContentsKey to References Cited in the TextIntroductionI. On the traditional conception of logicII. Introduction to the idea of philosophyIII. The Definition of philosophy according to AristotleIV. The Basic question of philosophy and the question of manV. Basic problems of a philosophical logicVI. The traditional classifications of logic and the task of returning to the foundations of this logicPreliminary NoteFirt Major PartDismantling Leibniz's Doctrine of Judgement Down to Basic Metaphysical Problems1. Characterization of the general structure of judgment2. Judgement and the idea of truth. The basic forms of truth In memoriam Max Scheler3. The idea of truth and the principles of knowledge Summary4. The idea of knowledge as such5. The essential determination of the being of genuine beingsa) The monad as driveb) Intermediate reflections to find the guiding clue for the interpretation of beingc) The structure6. The basic notion of being as such (not carried out)7. The theory of judgment and the notion of being. Logic and ontologySecond Major PartThe Metaphysics of the Principle of Reason as the Foundational Problem of LogicFirst Section: Exposition of teh Dimensions of the Problem8. The principle of ground as a rule of thought9. The essence of truth and its essential relation to "ground"a) The essence of propositional truthb) Intentionality and transcendence10. The problem of transcendence and the problem of Being and TimeAppendix: Describing the Idea and Function of a Fundamental OntologySecond Section: The problem of Ground11. The transcendence of Daseina) On the concept of transcendenceb) The phenomenon of worldc) Freedom and world12. Transcendence and temporality (nihil originarium)13. Transcendence temporalizing itself in temporality and the essence of ground14. The essence of ground and the idea of logicsupplement: distance and nearnesseditor's epiloguetranslator's afterwordindex

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Book SynopsisContains some of Heidegger's most crucial statements about temporality, ontological difference and dialectic, and being and time in Hegel. This title is suitable for students of Heidegger and Hegel and of contemporary Continental philosophy.Trade Review" . . . an important contribution . . . offers a penetrating glimpse into certain uncharted waters in the development of German thought." —Review of Metaphysics "A must for all students of Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger." —Choice

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Book SynopsisReconstructs 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. This volume approaches Plato through Aristotle.Trade ReviewStudents and scholars alike can now see for themselves why Heidegger's lectures on the Greeks in the 1920s caused such a stir, and they can judge just what it means to read a Greek text with Heidegger. The English translation is excellent, managing to capture some of the vibrancy of the lectures while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and readability. -- John EllisThematic and methodological parallels render this volume a fine source for those interested in the archaeology of Being and Time. . . . The text shows us a young Martin Heidegger at ease and passionate about his subject. * International Philosophical Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisAn early articulation of Heidegger's philosophical methodTrade Review"This book is an indispensable resource for the study of Heidegger's thought because it provides a very early articulation of concepts that are central to Heidegger's philosophy, such as care, facticity, nothingness, and temporality." -Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado, Denver

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Book SynopsisHeidegger's engagement with religionTrade ReviewScrupulously prepared and eminently readable. What Heidegger undertakes here is nothing less than a phenomenological destruction of the history of religion. —ChoiceTable of Contents1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION2. AUGUSTINE AND NEO-PLATONISM3. THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MEDIEVAL MYSTICISM

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Book SynopsisReadings of Germany's leading Romantic poet by Germany's foremost 20th-century philosopherTrade ReviewHeidegger's reading of 'The Ister' is thoughtful and rich. It provides his readers with the tools to build on his interpretation and to correct any missteps without doing violence to the whole. * Review of Metaphysics *Table of ContentsTranslators' ForewordPart One: Poetizing the Essence of the Rivers The Isther Hymn1. The theme of the lecture course: remarks on Holderlin's hymnal poetry2. Hymnal poetry as poetizing the essence of the riversReview3. The metaphysical interpretation of art4. Holderlin's poetry as not concerned with images in a symbolic or metaphysical sense. The concealed essence of the river5. The river as the locality of human abodeReview6. The rivers as "vanishing" and "full of intimation" in "voice of the People"Review7. The river as the locality of journeying and the journeying of locality8. The questionableness of the metaphysical representation of space and time9. Becoming homely as the care of Holderlin's poetry—the encounter between the foreign and one's own as the fundamental truth of history—Holderlin's dialogue with Pindar and SophoclesPart Two: The Greek Interpretation of Human Beings in Sophocles' Antigone10. The human being: the uncanniest of the uncanny. (The entry song of the chorus of elders and the first stationary song)Review11. The poetic dialogue between Holderlin and Sophocles12. The meaning of (Explication of the commencement of the choral ode)Review13. The uncanny as the ground of human beings. (Continued explication ofReview14. Further essential determinations of the human beingReview15. Continued explication of the essence of the 16. The expulsion of the human being as the most uncanny being. (The relation of the closing words to the introductory words of the choral song)Review17. The introductory dialogue between Antigone and Ismene18. The hearth as being. (Renewed meditation on the commencement of the choral ode and on the closing words)Review19. Continued discussion of the hearth as being20. Becoming homely in being unhomely—the ambiguity of being unhomely. The truth of the choral ode as the innermost middle of the tragedy.Part Three: Holderlin's Poetizing of the Essence of The Poet as Demigod21. Holderlin's river poetry and the choral ode from Sophocles—a historical becoming homely in each case22. The historically grounding spirit. Explication of the lines: "namely at home is spirit not at the commencement, not at the source. The home consumes it. Colony, and bold forgetting spirit loves. Our flowers and the shades of our woods gladden the one who languishes. The besouler would almost be scorched"23. Poetizing the essence of poetry—the poetic spirit as the spirit of the river. The holy as that which is to be poetized24. The rivers as the poets who found the poetic, upon whose ground human beings dwell25. The poet as the enigmatic "sign" who lets appear that which is to be shown. The holy as the fire that ignites the poet. The meaning of naming the gods.26. Poetizing founding builds the stairs upon which the heavenly descendConcluding Remark—"Is There a Measure on Earth?Editor's EpilogueTranslators' NotesGlossaryEnglish-GermanGerman-English

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Book SynopsisAimed at students of Heidegger, Kant, modern philosophy, and contemporary phenomenology, this book develops the relation between philosophy, ontology, and fundamental ontology. It also demonstrates that objectification rests on the productive power of imagination, a process that involves temporality, which is the basic constitution of human being.

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Book SynopsisElaborates a phenomenology of factical life. This book introduces a phenomenological interpretation of Aristotle. It contains discussions of phenomenological research, philosophical definition, formal indication, the relationship between philosophy and the sciences, facticity, the surrounding world, and questionability.Trade Review"This book is an indispensable resource for the study of Heidegger's thought because it provides a very early articulation of concepts that are central to Heidegger's philosophy, such as care, facticity, nothingness, and temporality." -Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado, Denver

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Book SynopsisA crucial work for understanding the full maturity of Heidegger's thoughtTrade ReviewThis highly influential collection of four seminars conducted between 1966 and 1973 was first published in French transcription in 1976, the year Heidegger died. Their influence on French philosophy and thinking during the late 1970s and 1980s cannot be exaggerated, for, at the moment when the work of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, and others was first coming to prominence, it now had access to Heidegger's clearest articulations of his later thinking. Much of deconstruction and poststructuralist thought bears the formative imprint of these seminars. Heidegger himself oversaw their German translation (published in 1977 and again in 1986, in a collected edition), from which this long-awaited English translation by Mitchell and Raffoul has been made. Their brilliant translation will prove indispensable for theory and criticism in English. Heidegger breathes new life into the ancient Greek meaning of presencing, which is the keynote of his call for the abandonment of all modern realisms, idealisms, and materialisms and for a return to an experience of consciousness that sees itself as part of phenomenal presencing, rather than as something separate and detached from the world. On Kant, Marx, and the meaning of technology, these seminars contain some of Heidegger's most thoughtful insights and arguments. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; lower-level undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *Overall Four Seminars is essentially a glimpse into Heidegger's way of working with students. Its pages recount his effortless command of the sweep of the history of Western philosophy from Anaximander to Husserl and Wittgenstein, his modesty about the accomplishments of Being and Time fifty years after writing the book, his conviction about the fundamental philosophical importance of phenomenological method . . . . Genuine teaching, then, is the demonstration of listening and thinking, not the presentation of content.26.1 2005 * Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal *[This] brilliant translation will prove indispensable for theory and criticism in English. . . . On Kant, Marx, and the meaning of technology, these seminars contain some of Heidegger's most thoughtful insights and arguments. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: Translators' ForewordSeminar in Le Thor 1966Seminar in Le Thor 1968Seminar in Le Thor 1969Seminar in Zähringen 1973German Translator's Afterword to Vier SeminareMartin Heidegger, "The Provenance of Thinking"Martin Heidegger, "Parmenides..."German Editor's Afterword to Collected Works, volume 15Endnotes on the TranslationGlossary German-English English-German

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