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Reading Heidegger: Commemorations (Studies in Continental Thought)

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What is called thinking?, Heidegger provokes us by saying, that the most thought provoking thing about our age, is that we have yet begun to think. What is called thinking? And how show we orient ourselves around a thinker who insists on being-with him in his thinking - a thinking that does not settle for answers but is guided by essential questions?

Commemorations is a series of essays presented at a symposium honoring Heidegger's thoughts. Several dozen, diverse and eclectic these essays range from the phenomenological to the historical, from analytics to buddhism and hinduism. There is also a section taken up by an Derrida essay (apparently he we very hard to classify). These essays are very accessible, since they were written to be spoken. Moreover, the range of topics provide a rich starting point to begin your own personal questioning into the thinking that is Heideggarian.

I found my this to be a valuable anthology, one which I have referred to several times in my own writings.