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Letters to his Wife: 1915-1970
Martin Heidegger
Polity, 2008
'There is something absolute about the letters between you & me; ? The letter is a form of communion of the soul-spirit ? ? one that is faded & yet unimpeded, complete?, wrote Martin Heidegger to his fiancée Elfride Petri shortly before their wedding. In the course of a marriage that lasted almost sixty years Martin and Elfride were often apart, and the letter thus remained a vital means of communication right through to the final years. The ...
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Being and Time 50 reviews
Martin Heidegger
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008
Some Thoughts on Approaching Being and Time
Martin Heidegger's (1889 -- 1976) "Being and Time" (1927), together with Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" is one of the seminal philosophical works of the Twentieth Century. The work still remains difficult, obscure, and highly controversial. The book, and its author, provoke wildly varying responses. This translation, by Macquarrie and Robinson dates from 1962 and appeared ...
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Being and Time: A Translation of Sein and Zeit (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)32 reviews
Martin Heidegger
State University of New York Press, 1996
Unprecedented Thinking from an Unprecedented Thinker
Being and Time (1927) is the magnum opus of one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century and arguably Western Philosophy. Spending 7 years writing this first of 67 books, Martin Heidegger turns Husserlian phenomenology (Husserl being Heidegger's main teacher) on its head and introduces to the Western tradition a whole new way of understanding ontology (the formal study of existentia). ...
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Poetry, Language, Thought (Perennial Classics)4 reviews
Martin Heidegger
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001
The Thing
One of the clearer expositions of Heidegger's later thought is Das Ding, anthologized in this volume. You are free to read the other selections ("the essence of language is the language of essence" ad nauseum) but das Ding begins with a phenomenological description of a Krug (a cup) that became rarer as Heidegger got older. The emptiness in the cup is the origin, like the hand that reaches out ...
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Nietzsche: Vols. 3 and 4 (Vol. 3: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics; Vol. 4: Nihilism) 3 reviews
Martin Heidegger, David Farrell Krell
HarperOne, 1991
A deep meditation
One of the greatest works on Nietzsche and about the end of Metaphysics. Heidegger re-discovers Nietzsche as a thinker, and not merely as a "critic of culture".
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Introduction to Metaphysics (Yale Nota Bene)8 reviews
Martin Heidegger
Yale University Press, 2000
A lucid discussion of 'being'
First let me set the expectation right because the title lends itself to expectations quite varied from the intent and purpose of the book. This book pertains to ontology rather than metaphysics in a wider sense. (Ontology is regarded as one of the branches or subjects of inquiry comprising metaphysics).
And this is in no way a textbook on metaphysics or an introduction to the subject of ...
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The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude 3 reviews
Martin Heidegger
Indiana University Press, 2001
My candidate for the follow-up to Being and Time
I always see talk of the successor book to Being and Time. Some say the Kantbook, some say Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), etc. Let me propose The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics. Because it was originally a lecture course, it is much more accesible than Being and Time, but it really continues the preoccupations of that book. In B&T, anxiety was the mood through which ...
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The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays2 reviews
Martin Heidegger
Harper Perennial, 1982
Heidegger at his best and most relevant
The Question Concerning Technology frequently has been criticized as lacking content beneath Heidegger's stormy language. Not true! It may take more than one reading (it took me about 5), but once the meaning of the concept of Enframing really takes a hold of you, it becomes the most powerful and relevant philosophical concept since Nietzsche's will to power. Responding to the challenge of ...
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On the Way to Language
Martin Heidegger
HarperOne, 1982
In this volume Martin Heidegger confronts the philosophical problems of language and begins to unfold the meaning begind his famous and little understood phrase "Language is the House of Being." The "Dialogue on Language," between Heidegger and a Japanese friend, together with the four lectures that follow, present Heidegger's central ideas on the origin, nature, and significance of language. These essays reveal how one of the most profound ...
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Basic Writings: from Being and Time (1927) to The Task of Thinking (1964)11 reviews
Martin Heidegger
HarperCollins, 1993
Remarkable Edition
This volume, published by HarperCollins in the sixties and edited by translator David Farrell Krell serves as the perfect compendium to the thought of Martin Heidegger, one of the most significant thinkers of philosophy in the 20th century. Heidegger's methodology is necessarily difficult, as he is trying to remove himself from the `average-everyday' language we employ; and he is trying to ...
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Letters : 1925-19757 reviews
Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger
Harcourt, 2003
Arendt and Heidegger in Letters
This collection of letters is an absolute necessity for anyone interested in Hannah Arendt, and particularly her relationship with the controversial German philosopher (and mentor) Martin Heidegger. The letters are well annotated and there is a helpful introduction as well. The only problem is that there are relatively few letters from Arendt. And those that appear in the collection are ...
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Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (Studies in Continental Thought)5 reviews
Martin Heidegger
Indiana University Press, 1997
Being and Time, Part II
This is perhaps the second most important text from Heidegger behind the monumental Being and Time. Where Being and Time ends abruptly without venturing into the destruction of the history of western ontology, the "Kant book" appears to be a sketch of the possible direction of Heidegger's fundamental ontology. Surprisingly enough, Heidegger offers a rather faithful exegesis of Kant's ...
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Nietzsche: Volumes One and Two: Volumes One and Two (Nietzsche, Vols. I & II)9 reviews
Martin Heidegger
HarperOne, 1991
Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
Prior to reading this book, Kaufmann was my favorite interpreter of Nietzsche's writings; but now, Heidegger has the prize. No other book that I have read on Nietzsche has come close to the depth and detail of this work. Heidegger masterfully exposits the concepts of will to power and eternal return to illumine Nietzsche's whole philosophical project in a way that I just haven't encountered ...
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The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)4 reviews
Martin Heidegger
Indiana University Press, 1988
Continuation of Being and Time
This book is a must read for those that choose to read Being and Time. The book itself is based, like so many of Heidegger's books, off of a lecture course he gave at the University of Marburg in the summer of 1927. This is important because Being and Time was ready for publication in 1927. If we put Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics alongside The Basic Problems of Phenomenology and Being ...
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Elucidations of Holderlin's Poetry (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences) (Contemporary ... 8 reviews
Martin Heidegger
Humanity Books, 2000
Infinite Dialogue
The philosophy of Martin Heidegger has the poetry of Holderlin as one of its nucleus of inspiration. The immnse difficulty of translating this wonderful text by Heidegger into English can only be appreciated by those who are familiar with the German language and have read the original German text. While the dialogue between Heidegger and Holderlin is often intense, dificult and complex, it is at ...
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Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity (Studies in Continental Thought) 2 reviews
Martin Heidegger
Indiana University Press, 2008
FASCINATING AND CHALLENGING
This translation of Heidegger's lectures at Freiburg during the summer of 1923 represents an important event in English-speaking Heidegger scholarship. Van Buren has done a masterful job, and rendered us all a real service. This lecture contains some of the most interesting material from Heidegger's entire corpus. His historical analysis of hermeneutics and of the concept of "man" in the ...
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History of the Concept of Time (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)3 reviews
Martin Heidegger
Indiana University Press, 1992
Extremely helpful
As a student with a great deal of interest in Heidegger's ontological inquiry, I found this to be an indispensable supplement to Being and Time. Where Being and Time seems unbearably difficult to understand, History of the Concept of Time offers clarification. Since it is a collection of lecture/notes, the writing is usually more straight-forward, which as we know is a blessing when it ...
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What Is Called Thinking?5 reviews
Martin Heidegger
Harper Perennial, 1976
The Best Philosophy Book Ever Written
If you read only one philosophy book in your entire life, this is the one to read. This book is not easy. It is not easy precisely because it is so simple and straightforward. It is not an exposition of thinking, or of what we call thinking, as much as it is an extended question about the problems associated with thinking. It has a healthy respect and acknowledges the complexity of the ...
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Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy (Studies in Continental Thought)
Martin Heidegger
Indiana University Press, 2007
"Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy" presents a lecture course given by Martin Heidegger in 1926 at the University of Marburg. First published in German as volume 22 of the "Collected Works", the book provides Heidegger's most systematic history of Ancient philosophy beginning with Thales and ending with Aristotle. In this lecture, which coincides with the completion of his most important work, "Being and Time", Heidegger is working out a way ...
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Parmenides (Studies in Continental Thought)4 reviews
Martin Heidegger
Indiana University Press, 1998
Propably the best in understanding Heidegger's fundamentals
Hiedegger's thought has been developed and published in hundred of volumes.For us ,non academics, it is almost impossible to access all this "treasury" and we have to try some of Heidegger's most popular books. In fact this book is one of the very few ,that gives you the chance in understanding the roots of Heidegger's philosophical program.It is not just an analysis of Parmenides and ...
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