Heraclitus Seminar, 1966/67 - Hardcover

Heidegger, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817366288 ISBN 13: 9780817366285

Publisher: University of Alabama Press, 1979

Synopsis

Heidegger, Martin / Fink, Eugen. Heraclitus Seminar 1966/67. Translated by Charles H.Seibert. Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1979. 24 cm x 16 cm. XII, 169 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some foxing on all edges. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes, with his name on the front free endpaper. Includes for example the following essays: The Standing Open of Gods and Humans. The Speculative in Hegel. Hegel's Relationship to Heraclitus. Life - Death / The Problem of a Speculative Explication etc etc. Martin Heidegger (26 September 1889 - 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition, particularly within the fields of existential phenomenology and philosophical hermeneutics. From his beginnings as a Catholic academic, he developed a groundbreaking and widely influential philosophy. His best known book, Being and Time (1927), is considered one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. In it and later works, Heidegger maintained that our way of questioning defines our nature. He argued that Western thinking had lost sight of being. Finding ourselves as always already moving within ontological presuppositions, we lose touch with our grasp of being and its truth becomes muddled. As a solution to this condition, Heidegger advocated a change in focus from ontologies based on ontic determinants to the fundamental ontological elucidation of being-in-the-world in general, allowing it to reveal, or unconceal itself as concealment. (Wikipedia).

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In the winter semester of 1966-67 at the University of Freiburg, Martin Heidegger conducted an extraordinary seminar on the fragments of Heraclitus. This book records those conversations, documenting the imaginative and experimental character of the multiplicity of interpretations offered and providing an invaluable portrait of Heidegger involved in active discussion and explication.

About the Author:

Martin Heidegger was born in Messkirch, Baden, Germany on September 22, 1889. He studied Roman Catholic theology and philosophy at the University of Frieburg before joining the faculty at Frieburg as a teacher in 1915. Eight years later Heidegger took a teaching position at Marburg. He taught there until 1928 and then went back to Frieburg as a professor of philosophy. As a philosopher, Heidegger developed existential phenomenology. He is still widely regarded as one of the most original philosophers of the 20th century. Influenced by other philosophers of his time, Heidegger wrote the book, Being in Time, in 1927. In this work, which is considered one of the most important philosophical works of our time, Heidegger asks and answers the question "What is it, to be?" Other books written by Heidegger include Basic Writings, a collection of Heidegger's most popular writings; Nietzsche, an inquiry into the central issues of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy; On the Way to Language, Heidegger's central ideas on the origin, nature and significance of language; and What is Called Thinking, a systematic presentation of Heidegger's later philosophy. Since the 1960s, Heidegger's influence has spread beyond continental Europe and into a number of English-speaking countries. Heidegger died in Messkirch on May 26, 1976.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0817366288
• ISBN 13: 9780817366285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 169