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The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger (London: Bloomsbury)
2016
TOC and Introduction (page-proofs) to the expanded 2016 paperback edition. Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, and now also one of the most contentious as revelations of the extent of his Nazism continue to surface. His ground-breaking works have had a hugely significant impact on contemporary thought through their reception, appropriation and critique. His thought has influenced philosophers as diverse as Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Adorno, Gadamer, Levinas, Derrida and Foucault, among others. In addition to his formative role in philosophical movements such as phenomenology, hermeneutics and existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, deconstruction and post-modernism, Heidegger has had a transformative effect on diverse fields of inquiry including political theory, literary criticism, theology, gender theory, technology and environmental studies. The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger is the definitive textbook to Heidegger's life and work, in fifty-nine original essays written by an international team of leading Heidegger scholars. This new edition presents comprehensive coverage of Heidegger life and contexts, sources, influences and encounters, key writings, major themes and topics, and reception and influence, and includes a chapter addressing the controversial Black Notebooks, National Socialism, and Antisemitism. This is the ideal research tool for anyone studying or working in the field of Heidegger Studies today.
2024
To study Heidegger is to study metaphysics. Unless we live like Nietzsche in an Alpine refuge, in a cave like Zarathustra, or in a Schwarzwald cottage like Heidegger, with our eyes pointed towards the infinite vastness of the surrounding horizon, or even better, towards the inner, primordial temple of mind, usually we are focused on worldly affairs, businesses, duties and tasks, deterring us from the contemplative capacity of our life. Practising metaphysics is the intellectual equivalent of mountaineering, leading to similar peak experiences, uncomparable inner vistas, irreplaceable mental belvederes. Intellectual summits embodied in the chefs-d’oeuvre of philosophy are analogous to mountain ranges that we all attempt to climb when we undertake the study of the textual tradition of philosophising. Philosophical textbooks are nothing else than guidebooks and mountain maps, descriptions of paths hitherto taken by others. But even philosophical masterworks like Plato’s dialogues, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, or Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe are not mountains themselves. As a piece of text, a series of letters, they still remain only traces, pathmarks of other people’s thoughts, climbings, ascents toward the noetic realm of mind. My book is no different. I follow the steps of Heidegger, retrace them, looking initially at his footmarks, slowly raising my sight to see the surrounding vastness of the mental space, and finally discover that it is a common domain shared by us all, a space of one single mind, traversed in the intellectual endeavour called philosophy. Finally I look up and behold that which unfolds itself into each form that I have ever encountered, into all words that I have ever uttered, some of them collected in the form of a book like this one, beginning with wonder, and ending in silence.
Scientia - The International Journal on the Liberal Arts
Heidegger is so well known that another introduction might seem to be superfluous. The author has dared it nonetheless because approaching Heidegger from his work on language offers us a different perspective – and, what the writer believes, is a more nuanced appreciation of this landmark in contemporary philosophy. The kehre has been exaggerated, to the author’s mind, and while the author does acknowledge that there is room for distinguishing between an earlier and a later Heidegger, he has been more keen about the continuity in Heidegger’s thought. References Martin Heidegger, On the Way to Language, Peter D. Hertz, trans HarperSan Francisco, 1982 ________________, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Albert Hofstadter, trans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982 _________________, The Essence of Reasons, Terrence Malick, trans. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969 __________________, Being and Time, Macquarrie and Robinson, trans. New York: Harper and Row, 1962 _...
NOTES ON THE WORK OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER
These are primarily reading notes taken throughout my career. Some were written in connection with courses that I taught. Some were written for a single student or a small group or for a former student. The students who come to mind (listed in a vaguely chronological order) are Kalin Stovall, Shannon O'Roarke, Rachel Davis, Fred Clark, Robert Sandmeyer, Peter Gillen, Molly Sturdevant, Errol Jones, Christina Frichtel, Kara Noel, Christopher Hamilton. Things written for students earlier than these were handwritten on margins and page backs of papers so that no copy was retained. Much of the work was done just so, sometimes in connection with various dissertation topics that I worked on but never to completion. Some entries come from handwritten notes taken from the 1960's on. I began to take notes digitally only in 1989 or so. Additions and revisions since I retired from Colorado State University have occurred in large part through correspondence with some of those already mentioned and through discussions in the biweekly colloquia of the Front Range Phenomenological Society, which includes apart from persons already mentioned Philip Turetzky and Blakely Vogel. There is somewhat more consistency in my English renderings of Heidegger's terms than is to be found among the many different translators for Heidegger's works published in English. Differences in the vocabularies of his many English translators are among the greatest obstacles to teaching and learning Heidegger's thought in the determinedly monolingual culture of the United States. So the reader will have to muddle through here. I do sometimes provide in these notes some of the alternate translations that have been used for the German term whose use is being discussed. In those cases, the names of the translators can be found by using the list of abbreviations on the site home page. CITATIONS are given in curly brackets and with a distinctive coloring as in this example: {SZ (G2), BT m160-161}. Here SZ and BT abbreviate respectively Sein und Zeit and Being and Time; the pagination referred to is that of the early editions of SZ which is reproduced in the margins of G2 as well as in both published English translations (BT) so that there is no need in this citation to identify which of the two is referred to. Such earlier editions' paginations are sometimes given in English translations either in side or top margins or else in the text directly (where they are much more difficult to find). The citation {MAL (G26) m245-246 (m in E)} refers to pages 245-246 in the marginal pagination of Die metaphysche Anfangsgrunde der Logik; this is volume 26 of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe with the pagination of the earlier editions reproduced in the margins; for this work there is just one published English translation, and it gives the pagination for those earlier editions in its margins so that the marginal paginations work for the English as well as for the several German publications. Where titles of cited works are not explicitly given, a list of Works Cited will be found following the last entry in the Notes. Editing led to numbered note markers that are not in numerical order in the text; that will perhaps be corrected eventually. In the meantime, the links from numbers in the text to the notes and back still work well.