The Principle of Reason

"Starting 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 Heim. "The Principle of Reason", the text of an important and influential lecture course that Martin Heidegger gave in 1955-56, takes as its focal point Leibniz's principle: nothing is without reason. Heidegger shows here that the principle of reason is in fact a principle of being. One of Heidegger's most artfully composed texts, it also contains important discussions of language, translation, reason, objectivity, and technology - as well as remarkable readings of Leibniz, Kant, Aristotle, and Goethe, among others.