Heidegger
The Man and the Thinker
Published on 12. July 2017
367 pages
978-1-351-51603-7 (ISBN)
Description
Many people consider Martin Heidegger the most important German philosopher of the twentieth century. He is indisputably controversial and influential. Athough much has been written about Heidegger, this may be the best single volume covering his life, career, and thought. For all its breadth and complexity, Heidegger's perspective is quite simple: he is concerned with the meaning of Being as disclosure.
Heidegger's life was almost as simple. He was a German professor, except for a brief but significant period in which he supported the Nazi regime. While that departure from philosophy continues to haunt his name and work, one must question whether his thought from 1912 to 1976 should be measured by the yardstick of his politics from May, 1933, through February, 1934. Th is anthology addresses his complex but simple thought and his simple but complex life.
In a real sense, Sheehan claims, there is no content to Heidegger's topic and legacy, only a method. But method must not be taken to mean a technique or procedure for philosophical thinking. Rather, the topic of Heidegger's thought and his pursuit of that topic, the "what" and the "how," are one and the same thing.
Heidegger writes, "Alles ist Weg," "Everything is way," and man's Being is to be on-the-way in essential movement. Heidegger, argues in our essence we humans are the topic and the point is not to be led there so much as to come to know what we already know and to become what we already are. This brilliant collection confirms this truism, and is an excellent introduction to the work of this seminal thinker.
Heidegger's life was almost as simple. He was a German professor, except for a brief but significant period in which he supported the Nazi regime. While that departure from philosophy continues to haunt his name and work, one must question whether his thought from 1912 to 1976 should be measured by the yardstick of his politics from May, 1933, through February, 1934. Th is anthology addresses his complex but simple thought and his simple but complex life.
In a real sense, Sheehan claims, there is no content to Heidegger's topic and legacy, only a method. But method must not be taken to mean a technique or procedure for philosophical thinking. Rather, the topic of Heidegger's thought and his pursuit of that topic, the "what" and the "how," are one and the same thing.
Heidegger writes, "Alles ist Weg," "Everything is way," and man's Being is to be on-the-way in essential movement. Heidegger, argues in our essence we humans are the topic and the point is not to be led there so much as to come to know what we already know and to become what we already are. This brilliant collection confirms this truism, and is an excellent introduction to the work of this seminal thinker.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Reflowable
File size
1,84 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-51603-7 (9781351516037)
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Content
Preface -Thomas SheehanIntroduction: Heidegger, the Project and the Fulfillment -Thomas SheehanPart I. Glimpses of the Philosopher's LifeHeidegger's Early Years: Fragments for a Philosophical Biography -Thomas SheehanA Recollection (1957) -Martin HeideggerLetter to Rudolf Otto (1919) -Edmund HusserlWhy Do I Stay in the Provinces? (1934) -Martin HeideggerHeidegger and the Nazis -Karl A. MoehlingOnly a God Can Save Us: The Spiegel Interview (1966) -Martin HeideggerThe Pathway (1947-1948) -Martin HeideggerSeeking and Finding: The Speech at Heidegger's Burial -Bernhard WeltePart II. Being, Dasein, and SubjectivityHeidegger's Way Through Phenomenology to the Thinking of Being -William J. Richardson, S.J.Toward the Topology of Dasein -Theodore KisielInto the Clearing -John SallisHeidegger's Model of Subjectivity: A Polanyian Critique -Robert E. InnisPart III. In Dialogue with Max SchelerReality and Resistance: On Being and Time, Section 43 -Max SchelerHeidegger on Transcendence and Intentionality: His Critique of Scheler -Parvis EmadIn Memory of Max Scheler (1928) -Martin HeideggerPart IV. Overcoming MetaphysicsHeidegger and Metaphysics -Walter BiemelMetaphysics and the Topology of Being in Heidegger -Otto Po;ggelerFinitude and the Absolute: Remarks on Hegel and Heidegger -Jacques TaminiauxThe Poverty of Thought: A Refl ection on Heidegger and Eckhart -John D. CaputoPart V. Technology, Politics, and ArtBeyond Humanism: Heidegger's Understanding of Technology -Michael E. ZimmermanHeidegger and Marx: A Framework for Dialogue -David SchweickartPrinciples Precarious: On the Origin of the Political in Heidegger -Reiner SchurmannHeidegger's Philosophy of Art -Sandra Lee BartkyPart VI. BibliographiesHeidegger: Translations in English, 1949-1977 -H. Miles GrothBibliography: Heidegger Translations in EnglishHeidegger: Secondary Literature in English, 1929-1977 -H. Miles Groth
