Being and Truth (Studies in Continental Thought) [Hardcover]

Martin Heidegger (Author), Gregory Fried (Translator), Richard Polt (Translator)

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Publication Date: September 6, 2010 | Series: Studies in Continental Thought

In these lectures, delivered in 1933-1934 while he was Rector of the University of Freiburg and an active supporter of the National Socialist regime, Martin Heidegger addresses the history of metaphysics and the notion of truth from Heraclitus to Hegel. First published in German in 2001, these two lecture courses offer a sustained encounter with Heidegger's thinking during a period when he attempted to give expression to his highest ambitions for a philosophy engaged with politics and the world. While the lectures are strongly nationalistic and celebrate the revolutionary spirit of the time, they also attack theories of racial supremacy in an attempt to stake out a distinctively Heideggerian understanding of what it means to be a people. This careful translation offers valuable insight into Heidegger's views on language, truth, animality, and life, as well as his political thought and activity.

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"Fried and Polt's translation of Martin Heidegger's Being and Truth is a well-crafted and careful rendering of an important and demanding volume of the Complete Works." —Andrew Mitchell, Emory University

(Andrew Mitchell, Emory University )

About the Author

Gregory Fried is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. He is author of Heidegger's Polemos: From Being to Politics and editor (with Richard Polt) of A Companion to Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics.

Richard Polt is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Xavier University. He is author of The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy and Heidegger: An Introduction.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (September 6, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0253355117
• ISBN-13: 978-0253355119
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #692,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Being and TRUTH, September 28, 2010

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This review is from: Being and Truth (Studies in Continental Thought) (Hardcover)

I have no idea why the Product Description mentions anything about Heidegger's involvement with the National Socialists or beckons anything relating to 'racial supremacy'. It's the truth being which, anyone who still considers these ideas within the realm of Heidegger is completely overlooking what is right in front of their own face - their Being and the Being-with-Others. It can be considered disappointing that Polt would consider such a description of his own book knowing that Heidegger's ideas and words transcend such ontic notions and focus on the phenomenon of the ontological. Other than Amazon's unrelated description of this book, it is one to be considered and read Care-full-y.