Mindfulness
Translated by Parvis Emad and Thomas Kalary
Published on 20. April 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-8264-8082-8 (ISBN)
Description
This brand new translation of Martin Heidegger's "Mindfulness" (Besinnung) makes available in English for the first time Heidegger's second major being-historical treatise. Composed in 1938/39, right after the completion of "Contributions to Philosophy", this work has a significant thematic proximity to that earlier work. Here Heidegger returns to and elaborates in detail many of the individual dimensions of the historically self-showing and transforming allotments of being. In this work Heidegger explores further that decisive hermeneutic-phenomemological perspective that experiences, thinks and projects - open the truth of being as renowning. This perspective anticipates and illuminates much of Heidegger's thinking in the 1950s and 60s. In addition to the main text, this volume also includes two further important texts, "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(1937/8) and "The Wish and the Will (On Preserving What is Attempted)" (1937/8), in which Heidegger surveys his unpublished works, gives instructions for their eventual publication, talks about his relationship to Catholic and Protestant Christianity, and reflects on his life's path.
This is a major new translation of a key text from one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century.
This is a major new translation of a key text from one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century.
Reviews / Votes
'This 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 - La Crosse Review quotes to follow * Blurb from reviewer *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-8082-8 (9780826480828)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. This volume is translated by Parvis Emad, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago, and Thomas Kalary, Professor of Philosophy at Suvidya College, Bangalore.
Content
Translator'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.