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A Companion to Heidegger (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) [Hardcover]

Hubert L. Dreyfus (Editor), Mark A. Wrathall (Editor)
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1405110929 978-1405110921 February 14, 2005 1
The Blackwell Companion to Heidegger is a complete guide to the work and thought of Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

  • Considers the most important elements of Heidegger’s intellectual biography, including his notorious involvement with National Socialism
  • Provides a systematic and comprehensive exploration of Heidegger’s work
  • One of the few books on Heidegger to cover his later work as well as Being and Time
  • Includes key critical responses to Heidegger’s philosophy
  • Contributors include many of the leading interpreters of, and commentators on, the work of Heidegger


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"The 31 essays in this volume make an important, illuminating contribution to explaining the complexity of Heidegger's thought and the strongly idiomatic nature of his language and conceptual framework. Highly recommended."
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“This volume of papers on Heidegger is unrivalled in its scope and quality … Its comprehensiveness makes it the most useful secondary volume on Heidegger now available.”
John Richardson, New York University

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A Companion to Heidegger is a complete guide to the work and thought of Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The volume opens by focusing on the most important elements of Heidegger's intellectual biography, including his notorious involvement with National Socialism. The book then goes on to provide a systematic and comprehensive exploration of Heidegger's work. The contributions proceed chronologically, starting with discussions of his magnum opus Being and Time, moving on to the period of his 'Kehre' or 'turn', and concluding with his neglected later work. A final section contains key critical responses to Heidegger's philosophy, including consideration of his relation to pragmatism, religion, and ecology. Contributors include many of the leading interpreters of, and commentators on, the work of Heidegger.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (February 14, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1405110929
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405110921
  • Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 1.4 x 10.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,910,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the Best Collection of Essays on Heidegger Ever!, March 11, 2005
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Perhaps the best collection of essays on Heidegger ever published. This book is endlessly rewarding: I've been reading it almost continually since I received it and have been deeply impressed by the quality of the 31 essays collected here (by the likes of Crowell, Dahlstrom, Sluga, Sheehan, Lafont, Carman, Mulhall, Blattner, Wrathall, Polt, Guignon, Dreyfus, Borgmann, Taylor, Rorty, and several emerging young scholars), all but 5 of which are new (and Taylor's, reprinted here, is revised). The essays break new ground rather than consolidate past insights, which makes for very exciting, provocative, and rewarding reading (550 pp. worth!). When this comes out in paperback (Blackwell is really profit maximizing here...), it is sure to become one of the most significant and widely read works in the field. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Terribly Proofread, December 16, 2007
I agree that the Companion to Heidegger offers an outstanding collection of essays and scholars, but the extraordinary number of typographical errors in the hardbound edition is dismaying. Three and four errors per page throughout the Rorty essay, for example. For $154.95, one would expect better craftsmanship from Blackwell. Let's hope that the paperback edition--at $50.00, no less--is better proofread.
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First Sentence:
For all Heidegger's emphasis on the history of philosophy, he had little interest in the historiographical details about the lives of the philosophers he studied. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ontological determinability, apophantic interpretations, while that becomes, irreducible rightness, originary temporality, originary future, ontological posits, revealing practices, other inception, disclosure space, occurrent entities, equipmental context, transcendental determination, phenomenological deconstruction, practical comportment, temporal idealism, authentic historicality, encountering entities, originary past, ontological phenomenon, thrown projection, logical idealism, concernful dealings, ontic sense, regional ontologies
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Martin Heidegger, Cambridge University Press, Indiana University Press, National Socialism, Logical Investigations, New Haven, San Francisco, Yale University Press, Hubert Dreyfus, National Socialist, Zur Sache des Denkens, Harvard University Press, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, The Hague, University of Freiburg, William Blattner, Cornell University Press, Critical Reader, Heidegger's Contributions, Northwestern University Press, Oxford University Press, Edmund Husserl, Martinus Nijhoff
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