How to Read Heidegger

How to Read Heidegger

Intent on letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading classic authors, the How to Read series will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon.
Martin Heidegger is perhaps the most influential, yet least readily understood, philosopher of the last century. Mark Wrathall unpacks Heideggerâ‚¬s dense prose and guides the reader through Heideggerâ‚¬s early concern with the nature of human existence, to his later preoccupation with the threat that technology poses to our ability to live worthwhile lives.

Wrathall pays particular attention to Heideggerâ‚¬s revolutionary analysis of human existence as inextricably shaped by a shared world. This leads to an exploration of Heideggerâ‚¬s views on the banality of public life and the possibility of authentic anticipation of death as a response to that banality. Wrathall reviews Heideggerâ‚¬s scandalous involvement with National Socialism, situating it in the context of Heideggerâ‚¬s views about the movement of world history. He also explains Heideggerâ‚¬s important accounts of truth, art, and language.

Extracts are taken from Heideggerâ‚¬s magnum opus, Being and Time, as well as a variety of his best-known essays and lectures.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate 2006-04-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393328806

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate	2006-04-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393328806

How to Read Heidegger

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