Sheehan Thomas

Heidegger: The Man and the Thinker Sheehan Thomas 1.º edición

Marc Notes: Originally published: c1981.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: Preface -Thomas Sheehan Introduction: Heidegger, the Project and the Fulfillment -Thomas Sheehan Part I. Glimpses of the Philosopher's Life Heidegger's Early Years: Fragments for a Philosophical Biography -Thomas Sheehan A Recollection (1957) -Martin Heidegger Letter to Rudolf Otto (1919) -Edmund Husserl Why Do I Stay in the Provinces? (1934) -Martin Heidegger Heidegger and the Nazis -Karl A. Moehling "Only a God Can Save Us" The Spiegel Interview (1966) -Martin Heidegger The Pathway (1947-1948) -Martin Heidegger Seeking and Finding: The Speech at Heidegger's Burial -Bernhard Welte Part II. Being, Dasein, and Subjectivity Heidegger's Way Through Phenomenology to the Thinking of Being -William J. Richardson, S. J. Toward the Topology of Dasein -Theodore Kisiel Into the Clearing -John Sallis Heidegger's Model of Subjectivity: A Polanyian Critique -Robert E. Innis Part III. In Dialogue with Max Scheler Reality and Resistance: On Being and Time, Section 43 -Max Scheler Heidegger on Transcendence and Intentionality: His Critique of Scheler -Parvis Emad In Memory of Max Scheler (1928) -Martin Heidegger Part IV. Overcoming Metaphysics Heidegger and Metaphysics -Walter Biemel Metaphysics and the Topology of Being in Heidegger -Otto POggeler Finitude and the Absolute: Remarks on Hegel and Heidegger -Jacques Taminiaux The Poverty of Thought: A Refl ection on Heidegger and Eckhart -John D. Caputo Part V. Technology, Politics, and Art Beyond "Humanism" Heidegger's Understanding of Technology -Michael E. Zimmerman Heidegger and Marx: A Framework for Dialogue -David Schweickart Principles Precarious: On the Origin of the Political in Heidegger -Reiner SchUrmann Heidegger's Philosophy of Art -Sandra Lee Bartky Part VI. Bibliographies Heidegger: Translations in English, 1949-1977 -H. Miles Groth Bibliography: Heidegger Translations in English Heidegger: Secondary Literature in English, 1929-1977 -H. Miles GrothPublisher Marketing: 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. Review Citations:

Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 6 (EAN 9781412810845, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Sheehan, Thomas Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago.