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A Companion to Heidegger (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)

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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.

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.