Books by Martin Heidegger

Book SynopsisFew philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. Basic Writings offers a full range of this profound and controversial thinkerâs writings in one volume, including: The Origin of the Work of Art The introduction to Being and Time What Is Metaphysics? Letter on Humanism The Question Concerning Technology The Way to Language The End of Philosophy Featuring a foreword by Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman, this essential collection provides readers with a concise introduction to the groundbreaking philosophy of this brilliant and essential thinker.Table of ContentsBeing and Time: Introduction. What is Metaphysics?. On the Essence of Truth. The Origin of the Work of Art. Letter on Humanism. Modern Science, Metaphysics, and Mathematics. The Question Concerning Technology. Building Dwelling Thinking. What Calls for Thinking?. The Way to Language. The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking.

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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 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 SynopsisPresents Martin Heidegger's important 1924 Marburg lectures that anticipate much of the revolutionary thinking which he subsequently articulated in "Being and Time". This book interprets Aristotle's "Rhetoric" and looks at the Greek notion of pathos.Trade ReviewWe . . . have every reason to thank the translators for undertaking one of the most major Heidegger works to be published in recent years. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *This text will be of vital interest to scholars interested in the genesis of Being and Time and Heidegger's early formulations of its central arguments in the 1920s. . . . [A]n important addition to Heidegger's works on Aristotle available in English.Vol. 48, No. 3, July 2010 * Journal of the History of Philosophy *This set of lectures from 1924 offers a refreshing and productive picture of Aristotle. . . . Heidegger opens up possibilities in these lectures for reading philosophy and for putting our thought in touch with the concrete. * Philosophy in Review *Table of ContentsTranslator's ForewordPRELIMINARY REMARKSPART ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT PHILOSOPHYPART TWO THE MOST IMPORTANT GREEK THINKERS: THEIR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSSECTION ONE Philosophy up to PlatoSECTION TWO Plato's philosophySECTION THREEAristotle's philosophyAPPENDICESSupplementary TextsExcerpts from the Mörchen TranscriptionBröcker TranscriptionEditor's AfterwordGreek-English Glossary

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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 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 SynopsisThe texts and notes collected in this volume offer unique insight into the development of Heidegger’s thinking on language and art from the late 1930s to the early 1950s – a tumultuous period both for Heidegger personally and for Germany as a whole. Following Germany’s defeat in World War II, Heidegger was banned from teaching at Freiburg University, where he had been a professor since 1928, and his thinking underwent significant changes as he began to cultivate different modes of silence and non-saying in his philosophy of language. This volume illuminates these shifts and charts the evolution of key terms in Heidegger’s philosophy of language during this key period in the development of his thought. The central theme of Heidegger’s reflections on language in this volume is his repeated engagement with the character of the word, silence and the unsaid, and his rejection of the instrumental conception of language, where he instead prioritized conversation as the “homeland of language.” Alongside references to Hölderlin and von Hofmannsthal and shrewd scrutiny of aural phenomena such as silent thought and speechlessness, speech is demonstrated to be intimately connected to the human essence. In a later section, Heidegger examines the place of art, in particular the plastic arts, and the role of the artist in conjunction with the new industrial landscape and architecture of his time, and in juxtaposition with ancient Greek attitudes to space and the polis. This key work by Heidegger, now available in English for the first time, will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy and to anyone interested in Heidegger’s thought.Trade Review"This volume invites us to follow Heidegger as he thinks on paper and to join in his explorations of being, language, and art. Adam Knowles' thoughtful translation conveys the dogged inventiveness of these texts."—Richard Polt, Xavier University "These starkly polysemic notes on language, poetry, and art dramatically elaborate Heidegger's later phenomenological understanding of how poetry gives rise to both art and language, how that emergence gets disastrously eclipsed and forgotten by Western metaphysics, and what it means to rediscover being's poetic emergence today. Here Heidegger finally thinks clearly through the distinction between 'the being of entities' (or 'beingness,' the domain of metaphysics) and 'beyng' (or 'being as such,' the heart of the matter for poetic thinking), that crucial distinction which both destroys the early 'metaphysical' project of Being and Time and launches his later work of thinking beyond metaphysics (and the nihilistic history metaphysics underwrites)."—Professor Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico

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Book SynopsisThis volume comprises the lecture course that Heidegger gave in 1941 on the metaphysics of German Idealism. The first part of the lecture course contains a preliminary consideration of the distinction between ground and existence. The elucidation of the conceptual history includes a striking confrontation with Kierkegaard’s and Jaspers’ concepts of existence, as well as an elucidation of the concept of existence in Being and Time, which Heidegger distinguishes from the former concepts. Heidegger’s self-interpretation is not an end in itself, however, but rather a way of pointing to Schelling’s distinction between ground and existence, whose root and inner necessity and whose various versions Heidegger discusses subsequently. The second part of the lecture course is focused on Schelling’s “freedom treatise,” which Heidegger regards as the pinnacle of the metaphysics of German Idealism. Heidegger’s consideration of Schelling’s distinction between ground and existence finds its guiding thread in the introduction of the realms of being – eternal or finite, each being is a joining of the ground of existence and existence itself. In a subsequent overview, Heidegger discusses the relation of the distinction between ground and existence to the essence of human freedom and to the essence of the human. On the basis of this discussion, it becomes possible to grasp the connection between freedom and evil in Schelling’s system. This important work by Heidegger, published here in English for the first time, will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy and to anyone interested in Heidegger’s work.Trade Review“Unlike the course he offered on the same subject five years earlier, Heidegger’s 1941 lectures on Schelling’s ‘freedom treatise’ demonstrate his decisive break from ‘metaphysics,’ including German idealism, and allow us to see more clearly the radical reorientation of his later thought. No less fascinating is the large portion of the present volume devoted to an interpretation of Kierkegaard’s concept of existence and its relation to the (so-called) ‘existentialism’ of Being and Time. This excellent translation is a must-read for students and scholars alike.”Taylor Carman, Barnard College “Heidegger’s lecture course from 1941 not only attempts a new interpretation of Schelling’s essay on the essence of human freedom, extending his 1936 treatment of that same text, but contains a wealth of material on Heidegger’s ongoing reflections on the history of metaphysics and an important series of elucidations of Being and Time. This careful and sensitive translation will not only be of great interest to scholars of German Idealism, but is essential reading for anyone following Heidegger’s own philosophical development.”William McNeill, DePaul UniversityTable of ContentsTranslators’ Introduction INTRODUCTION THE NECESSITY OF A HISTORICAL THINKING § 1. Schelling’s Treatise as the Peak of the Metaphysics of German Idealism § 2. Historical Thinking, Historiographic Explanation, Systematic Reflection § 3. Elucidations of the Title of the Treatise § 4. The Organization of the Treatise § 5. Brief Excursus on a Further Misgiving (the Historiographic – the Current – That Which Has Been) PART I PRELIMINARY REFLECTION ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN GROUND AND EXISTENCE § 6. The Core Section of the Treatise: The Distinction between Essence Insofar as It Exists and Essence Insofar as it Is Merely Ground of Existence § 7. The Organization of the Preliminary Reflection First Chapter The Conceptual-Historical Elucidation of Ground and Existence § 8. Essentia and Existentia § 9. “Existence” and “Philosophy of Existence” (K. Jaspers) § 10. Kierkegaard’s Concept of Existence § 11. Kierkegaard, “Philosophy of Existence,” and Being and Time (1927) a) What Occasion Is There for Classifying Being and Time as “Philosophy of Existence”? ) Analytic of Existence ) Existence – As Understood in the Sense of Kierkegaard’s Restriction of It ) Philosophy of Anxiety, of the Nothing, of Death, of Care . . . ) Philosophical Anthropology b) Rejection of the Classification of Being and Time as Philosophy of Existence by Way of an Elucidation of the Concepts of Existence and Da-sein (Elucidations of Being and Time) ) Existence and Dasein as Meaning “Actuality in General” (As Understood in Traditional Usage of Language) ) Dasein as the Bodily-Psychic-Rational Being-Actual of the Human, and Existence as the Subjectivity of Self-Being (Jaspers) ) “Existentiell” and “Existential” Concepts of Existence ) “Understanding of Being” as the Decisive Determination of Dasein and Existence in Being and Time ) Dasein, Temporality, and Time ) Temporality, Da-sein, Existence ) Anxiety, Death, Guilt, the Nothing within the Realm of Questioning in Being and Time ) The “Essence” of Da-sein ) Understanding of Being, and Being ) Being and the Human – Anthropomorphism § 12. Preliminary Interpretation of Schelling’s Concept of Existence § 13. The Inceptive Impetuses Determining the Essence of Ground and Their Historical Transformation Second Chapter The Root of Schelling’s Distinction between Ground and Existence § 14. Elucidation of the Essential Determination of Being as Willing a) The Essential Predicates of Being ) Ground-lessness ) Eternity ) Independence from Time ) Self-Affirmation b) Justification of the Predicates of Being c) In What Way Willing Is Sufficient for the Predicates of Being d) Being in Its Highest and Ultimate Jurisdiction § 15. Being as Willing as the Root of the Distinction between Ground and Existence Third Chapter The Inner Necessity of Schelling’s Distinction between Ground and Existence Fourth Chapter The Various Formulations of Schelling’s Distinction between Ground and Existence § 16. The Proper Aim of the Interpretation of the Freedom Treatise: Reaching the Fundamental Position of the Metaphysics of German Idealism. Evil and the System § 17. Transition from the Preliminary Reflection to the Interpretation of the Core Section of the Treatise and of the Latter Itself PART II AN INTERPRETATION OF THE CORE SECTION, “THE ELUCIDATION OF THE DISTINCTION” BETWEEN GROUND AND EXISTENCE § 18. The “Elucidation of the Distinction” as the Presentation of Beings as a Whole (God, World, Human) First Chapter The Reflection that Takes God as a Starting Point § 19. The Direct Elucidation: The Presentation of the Being of Beings “in” God. Philosophy as Unconditional Knowledge of the Absolute in Contrast to Theology and Mathematics. The Various Senses of the Word “Nature” a) Philosophy and Theology b) Philosophy and Mathematics c) The Concept of the Absolute in Schelling and Hegel § 20. The Analogical Elucidation: Presentation of the Correspondence Between the Stations of the Being of the Absolute § 21. The Circularity of the Distinction Between Ground and Existence § 22. Summary of What Was Said about the Distinction in God § 23. Excursus: The Unconditional Precedence of the Certainty (That Is to Say, Concurrently: the Beingness) of the Absolute Second Chapter The Reflection that Takes its Point of Departure from Things § 24. The Ground in God as “Originary Yearning” § 25. Creation as Formation through the Imagination; the Creature as “Image” Third Chapter The Reflection that Takes its Point of Departure from the Human § 26. The Necessity of Creation and the Essence of the Human as the Proper Creature in which God Himself Reveals Himself § 27. Human Will as “Divine Glimpse of Life” and “Seed of God” CONCLUSION OVERVIEW § 28 The “Distinction” and the Essence of Freedom and of Human Freedom in Particular § 29 The “Distinction” in its Full Essence § 30. The “Distinction” and the Essence of the Human § 31. The Essence of Evil § 32. Evil and the System § 33. The System and the Truth (Certainty) of Beings as a Whole § 34. What Confrontation Means with Respect to Metaphysics RECAPITULATIONS AND COURSE OF THE INTERPRETATION Recapitulation of 14 January Recapitulation of 21 January Recapitulation of 28 January Recapitulation of 4 February Recapitulation of 11 February Recapitulation of 18 February Recapitulation of 25 February Recapitulation of 4 March Recapitulation of 11 March APPENDIX Preliminary Glimpses and Directives Transitional Reflection on Hegel The Confrontation with the Metaphysics of German Idealism and with Metaphysics in General Supplement (Leibniz) German–English Glossary English–German Glossary Greek/Latin–English Lexicon

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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 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 SynopsisWritten in 1938/9, Mindfulness (translated from the German Besinnung) is Martin Heidegger''s second major being-historical treatise. Here, Heidegger develops some of his key concepts and themes including truth, nothingness, enownment, art and Be-ing and discusses the Greeks, Nietzsche and Hegel at length. In addition to the main text, the text also includes two further important essays, A Retrospective Look at the Pathway' (1937/8) and ''The Wish and the Will (On Preserving What is Attempted)'' (1937/8), in which Heidegger surveys his unpublished works and discusses his relationship to Catholic and Protestant Christianity and reflects on his life''s path. This is a major translation of a key text from one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations Series.Trade ReviewThis is a central text for coming to terms with Heidegger's thinking ... The translation itself mirrors and maintains the haunting character of the German text. The Translators' Foreword is a masterpiece in setting the stage and opening up the possibilities for the English to stay true to the Heideggerian project of thinking the truth of be-ing. * Kenneth Maly, University of Wisconsin, USA *Table of ContentsTranslator's Foreword I. Introduction II. Leaping Ahead unto the Uniqueness of Be-ing III. Philosophy IV. On Projecting-Open Be-ing V. Truth and Knowing Awareness VI. Be-ing VII. Be-ing and Man VIII. Be-ing and Man IX. Anthropomorphism X. History XI. Technicity XII. 'History' and Technicity XIII. Be-ing and Power XIV. Be-ing and Being XV. The Thinking of Be-ing XVI. The Forgottenness of Be-ing XVII. The History of Be-ing XVIII. Gods XIX. Errancy XX. On the History of Metaphysics XXI. The Metaphysical 'Why-Question' XXII. Be-ing and 'Becoming' XXIII. Being as Actuality XXIV. Be-ing and 'Negativity' XXV. Being and Thinking, Being and Time XXVI. A Gathering into Being Mindful XXVII. The Be-ing-Historical Thinking and the Question of Being XXVIII. The Be-ing-Historical Concept of Metaphysics Appendix I: A Retrospective Look at the Pathway Appendix II: The Wish and the Will Editor's Epilogue

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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 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 SynopsisHeidegger'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 Ereignis. 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 sy

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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 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 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 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 SynopsisOffers the most thorough explanation of the most fundamental and abiding theme in Heidegger's philosophy: the relationship of an individual's existence to truth.Trade Review"Finally a short note on the book. Ted Sadler's writing is an example to the general reader of how to read philosophical texts slowly, as one reads poems, of the encounter with ‘the art of going slowly [following] Heidegger's conviction that philosophy, genuinely undertaken and carried through, subverts the impatient "hunger for results" so characteristic of the modern age' [x-xi]. Within the world of scholarship this is a classic that will certainly stimulate any future discussion, but on Heidegger's terms." -Francesco Tampoia, Philosophy in Review/ Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, January 2004-June 2004

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