The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 7/10/2006
EAN 9780521821360, ISBN10: 0521821363

Hardcover, 456 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm
Language: English

Martin Heidegger is now widely recognized as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. He transformed mainstream philosophy by defining its central task as asking the 'question of being'. His thought has contributed to the turn to hermeneutics and to postmodernism and poststructuralism. Moreover, the disclosure of his deep involvement in Nazism has provoked much debate about the relation of philosophy to politics. This edition brings to the fore other works, as well as alternative approaches to scholarship. The essays cover topics such as Heidegger's conception of phenomenology, his relation to Kant and Husserl, his account of truth, and his stand on the realism/anti-realism debate. This edition includes a new preface by the editor, revised versions of several essays from the first edition, and an exhaustive bibliography, providing guidance for both newcomers to Heidegger's work and established scholars.

List of contributors
Abbreviations
works by Heidegger
Chronology
Preface to the second edition
Introduction Charles B. Guignon
1. The question of being
Heidegger's project Dorothea Frede
2. Reading a life
Heidegger and hard times Thomas Sheehan
3. The principle of phenomenology Taylor Carman
4. Time and phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger Robert J. Dostal
5. Laying the ground for metaphysics
Heidegger's appropriation of Kant William Blattner
6. Heidegger and the hermeneutic turn David Couzens Hoy
7. Engaged agency and background in Heidegger Charles Taylor
8. Death, time, history
Division II of Being and Time Piotr Hoffman
9. Truth and the essence of truth in Heidegger's thought Mark A. Wrathall
10. Authenticity, moral values, and psychotherapy Charles B. Guignon
11. Heidegger, Buddhism, and deep ecology Michael E. Zimmerman
12. Heidegger and theology John D. Caputo
13. Heidegger on the connection between nihilism, art, technology and politics Hubert L. Dreyfus
14. The fourfold Julian Young
Bibliography
Index.