Books by Martin Heidegger

Et filosofisk hovedværk i det 20. århundrede. Om kernen i det at eksistere, hvor det vigtigste element er tiden. Om hvordan der i vores oplevelse af tiden er indbygget en fremtidighed, dvs. hvert nu peger mod sin egen fremtid

A crucial work for understanding a major turning point in Heidegger's thought.

Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. This title offers a full range of this profound and controversial thinker's writings, including: "The Origin of the Work of Art"; "The introduction to Being and Time"; "What Is Metaphysics?"; and, "The End of Philosophy".

Reconstructs Martin Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg in the winter semester of 1924-25, which was devoted to an interpretation of Plato and Aristotle. This volume approaches Plato through Aristotle.

A new translation of Heidegger's monumental work

The two treatises The Overcoming of Metaphysics (1938/39) and The Essence of Nihilism (1946-1948) do not belong together temporally or formally, but they are brought together in this volume because they both treat a common thesis from the standpoint of different questions - namely, that nihilism is the essence of metaphysics in relation to the history of being.The overcoming of metaphysics is, for Heidegger, the decisive historical moment in which metaphysics is experienced as the history of the abandonment by being and overcome at the same time. The abandonment of beings by being reveals itself in the final and most extreme intensification of metaphysics as the "unconditioned predominance of manipulation." Manipulation means here the all-dominating producibility of beings.The Essence of Nihilism is linked to the idea of overcoming. This text deals with the attempt to elucidate the essence of nihilism through Nietzsche's words "God is dead." The killing of God springs from the will to power as the most extreme form of manipulation. The being of beings is grasped here as the positing of values emanating from the will to power. In this positing of being as value, it becomes clear that being itself remained unthought in metaphysics. Therefore, metaphysics as such is nihilism proper.These key works by Heidegger, now available in English for the first time, will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy and to anyone interested in Heidegger's thought.

Tænkningens for-gængereMidt i verdensnattensmørke må nogen blandt de dødelige vove at se ud i afgrunden og erfare det, viendnu ikke har sprog for. Det er det, digterne gør. Digtning skaber perspektivforskydninger,giver os en chance for med en nyfunden klarhed at se alt det, der er, i sinhelhed. Heidegger mente selv kun at tænke én tanke: nemlig hvordan alt detværende i sin væren viser sig. Netop poesien frigør sproget fra den dagligdagsinstrumentelle brug, så det kan tale om, hvordan det værende er. For ”sprogeter værens hus”.“Hvorfor digtere itrange tider?” er det spøgende spørgsmål, der indleder Martin Heideggersforelæsning fra 1946, holdt i anledning af 20-årsdagen for Rainer Maria Rilkesdød – og skrevet i skyggen af anden verdenskrig. Især tre spørgsmål optagerMartin Heidegger i hans sene filosofi: Hvad vil det sige at eksistere påjorden, hvad er teknologi, og hvad skal vi med digtere? I Hvorfor digtere?viser de tre spørgsmål sig at være tæt forbundne. Hvorfor digtere? er en del af bogserien AFTRYK, der samler korte ogvedkommende filosofiske tekster med væsentlig virkningshistorie. Kasper NeferOlsen har skrevet indledning og oversat denne tekst, der er relevant for alle,der interesserer sig for kunstfilosofi, teknologikritik og eksistenstænkning.Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) indtager en fremtrædende position i det tyvendeårhundredes filosofi, særligt inden for fænomenologi, som han bragte i berøringmed hermeneutik og eksistenstænkning. Heidegger var optaget af spørgsmål omværen, tid, menneskets kastethed og frihed. Hans hovedværk er Væren og tid,der afsøger værensspørgsmålets mening i det konkrete, levede liv. Senere iforfatterskabet fortsætter denne søgen i dialog med historien, kunsten ogteknologien, og i nærværende tekst er det forholdet mellem liv, sprog, tænkningog digtning, der er i centrum.

Originally published: Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2010.

Discourse on Thinking questions that must occur to us the moment we manage to see a familiar situation in unfamiliar light.

Sproget og Ordet samler fire foredrag af den tyske filosof Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). De fire teksters tidsmæssige samhørighed dækker over en dyb tematisk sammenhæng, som denne samling gør særligt tydelig.For en overfladisk betragtning handler de to om poesi, de to andre om arkitekturens grundbegreb; ved nærmere eftersyn handler de alle fire om det samme: hvorledes det moderne menneske kan genvinde en autentisk forståelsesramme for sin jordiske tilværelse.Heidegger peger på digterne – Hölderlin, George, Trakl – kun for at nå frem til en ny artikulation af begreber som ”rum” og ”verden”. Bogen henvender sig til et bredt felt indenfor humaniora, filosofi og arkitektur.Sproget og Ordet udkom første gang i 2000. Bogen genudgives nu i Hans Reitzels Forlags serie Klassikere.

ΓÇ£On the day of German Labor, on the day of the Community of the People, the Rector of Freiburg University, Dr. Marin Heidegger, made his official entry into the National Socialist Party.ΓÇ¥ And so begins one of the most controversial philosophical texts available today. Heidegger, a German Nationalist and proud Nazi, thoroughly examines the history, the philosophy, and the rise to power of the Nazi movement in Germany. Martin HeideggerΓÇÖs distinguished Italian colleague, Professor Benedetto Croce, said of his German contemporary, ΓÇ£This man dishonors philosophy and that is an evil for politics too.ΓÇ¥ CroceΓÇÖs severe rebuke was not singular at the time when Hitlerism was rampant over Europe. It is true that among the almost one thousand professional philosophers of Germany and Austria only very few actively opposed National Socialism. On the other hand, no one degraded his historic profession in the manner Heidegger did, by becoming a spokesman for National Socialism and attempting to mold his theories into one pattern with Hitlerism. HeideggerΓÇÖs contribution to the growth and development of National Socialism was immense. In this small anthology Dr. Runes endeavors to point to the utter confusion Heidegger created by drawing, for political and social application of his own existentialism metaphysics, upon the decadent and repulsive brutalization of Hitlerism. Martin Heidegger was a philosopher most known for his contributions to German phenomenological and existential thought. Heidegger was born in rural Messkirch in 1889 to Catholic parents. While studying philosophy and mathematics at Albert-Ludwig University in Freiburg, Heidegger became the assistant for philosopher Edmund Husserl. Influenced by Husserl, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, Heidegger wrote extensively on the quality of Being, including his opus Being and Time. He served as professor of philosophy at Albert-Ludwig University and taught there during the war. In 1933, Heidegger joined the National Socialist German WorkerΓÇÖs (or Nazi) Party and expressed his support for Hitler in several articles and speeches. After the war, his support for the Nazi party came under attack, and he was tried as a sympathizer. He was able to return to Albert-Ludwig University, however, and taught there until he retired. Heidegger continued to lecture and write until his death 1973.

This is the first English translation to bring together the texts originally published under the title Holzwege as the unified totality which Heidegger intended. It will be an invaluable resource for all students of Heidegger, whether they work in philosophy, literary theory, religious studies, or intellectual history.

Martin Heidegger's 1941-1942 lecture course on Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn, "Remembrance," delivered immediately following his confrontation with Nietzsche, lays out a detailed plan for the interpretation of Hölderlin's poetry in which remembrance is a central concern. With its emphasis on the "free use of the national" and the "holy of the fatherland," the course marks an important progression in Heidegger's political thought. In addition to its startlingly innovative analyses of greeting, the festive, and the dream, the text provides Heidegger's fullest elaboration of the structure of commemorative thinking in relationship to time and the possibility of an "other beginning." This English translation by William McNeill and Julia Ireland completes the series of Heidegger's major lecture courses on Hölderlin.

Volume 35 of Heidegger's Complete Works comprises a lecture course given at the University of Freiburg in 1932, five years after the publication of Being and Time. During this period, Heidegger was at the height of his creative powers, which are on full display in this clear and imaginative text. In it, Heidegger leads his students in a close reading of two of the earliest philosophical source documents, fragments by Greek thinkers Anaximander and Parmenides. Heidegger develops their common theme of Being and non-being and shows that the question of Being is indeed the origin of Western philosophy. His engagement with these Greek texts is as much of a return to beginnings as it is a potential reawakening of philosophical wonder and inquiry in the present.

Readings of Germany's leading Romantic poet by Germany's foremost 20th-century philosopher

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.

Martin Heidegger's writings on Hegel are notoriously difficult but show an essential engagement between two of the foundational thinkers of phenomenology. Joseph Arel and Niels Feuerhahn provide a clear and careful translation of Volume 68 of the Complete Works, which is comprised of two shorter texts-a treatise on negativity, and a penetrating reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. In this volume, Heidegger relates his interpretation of Hegel to his own thought on the event, taking up themes developed in Contributions to Philosophy. While many parts of the text are fragmentary in nature, these interpretations are considered some of the most significant as they bring Hegel into Heidegger's philosophical trajectory.

With an introduction by Manfred Stassen, this collection of articles by Martin Heidegger covers many topics over many years. They cover his anti-semitism, his relationship with Nazism, his work on phenomenology and essays on his groundbreaking notions of Being.

As an early articulation of Heidegger's thought, this book will be an indispensable resource for scholars and students.

First published in German in 1984 as volume 45 of Martin Heidegger's collected works, this book is the first English translation of a lecture course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1937-1938. Heidegger's task here is to reassert the question of the essence of truth, not as a "e;problem"e; or as a matter of "e;logic,"e; but precisely as a genuine philosophical question, in fact the one basic question of philosophy. Thus, this course is about the essence of truth and the essence of philosophy. On both sides Heidegger draws extensively upon the ancient Greeks, on their understanding of truth as aletheia and their determination of the beginning of philosophy as the disposition of wonder. In addition, these lectures were presented at the time that Heidegger was composing his second magnum opus, Beitrage zur Philosophie, and provide the single best introduction to that complex and crucial text.

Through these broad and sprawling notebooks, Heidegger offers fascinating opinions on Holderlin, Nietzsche, Wagner, Wittgenstein, Pascal, and many others. The importance of the Black Notebooks transcends Heidegger's relationship with National Socialism. These personal notebooks contain reflections on technology, art, Christianity, the history of philosophy, and Heidegger's attempt to move beyond that history into another beginning.

Heidegger's radical thinking on the meaning of truth in a ';clear and comprehensive critical edition' (Philosophy in Review). Martin Heidegger's 192526 lectures on truth and time provided much of the basis for his momentous work, Being and Time. Not published until 1976three months before Heidegger's deathas volume 21 of his Complete Works, it is nonetheless central to Heidegger's overall project of reinterpreting Western thought in terms of time and truth. The text shows the degree to which Aristotle underlies Heidegger's hermeneutical theory of meaning. It also contains Heidegger's first published critique of Husserl and takes major steps toward establishing the temporal bases of logic and truth. Thomas Sheehan's elegant and insightful translation offers English-speaking readers access to this fundamental text for the first time.

Ponderings II-VI begins the much-anticipated English translation of Martin Heidegger's "e;Black Notebooks."e; In a series of small notebooks with black covers, Heidegger confided sundry personal observations and ideas over the course of 40 years. The five notebooks in this volume were written between 1931 and 1938 and thus chronicle Heidegger's year as Rector of the University of Freiburg during the Nazi era. Published in German as volume 94 of the Complete Works, these challenging and fascinating journal entries shed light on Heidegger's philosophical development regarding his central question of what it means to be, but also on his relation to National Socialism and the revolutionary atmosphere of the 1930s in Germany. Readers previously familiar only with excerpts taken out of context may now determine for themselves whether the controversy and censure the "e;Black Notebooks"e; have received are deserved or not. This faithful translation by Richard Rojcewicz opens the texts in a way that captures their philosophical and political content while disentangling Heidegger's notoriously difficult language.