Interpreting Heidegger
Critical Essays

This book interprets themes of Heidegger's thought, and includes his interpretations of poets and philosophers, and influential critical interpretations of Heidegger's philosophy.

Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Edited by)

9780521764940, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 March 2011

320 pages, 3 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.6 kg

'… in rethinking, re-articulating and re-orienting the inheritance of Heidegger's thought, the authors have put together an excellent collection of masterly essays, [one] that is characterized throughout by an intense critical and specialist engagement with Heidegger's oeuvre. Heidegger scholars will find much that is relevant to the persistent, continuing philosophical discussions on Heidegger.' Philosophy in Review

This volume of essays by internationally prominent scholars interprets the full range of Heidegger's thought and major critical interpretations of it. It explores such central themes as hermeneutics, facticity and Ereignis, conscience in Being and Time, freedom in the writings of his period of transition from fundamental ontology, and his mature criticisms of metaphysics and ontotheology. The volume also examines Heidegger's interpretations of other authors, the philosophers Aristotle, Kant and Nietzsche and the poets Rilke, Trakl and George. A final group of essays interprets the critical reception of Heidegger's thought, both in the analytic tradition (Ryle, Carnap, Rorty and Dreyfus) and in France (Derrida and Lévinas). This rich and wide-ranging collection will appeal to all who are interested in the themes, the development and the context of Heidegger's philosophical thought.

Notes on contributors
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Method of citation and bibliography of Heidegger's works
Part I. Interpreting Heidegger's Philosophy: 1. Heidegger's hermeneutics: towards a new practice of understanding Holger Zaborowski
2. Facticity and Ereignis Thomas Sheehan
3. The null basis-being of a nullity, or between two nothings - Heidegger's uncanniness Simon Critchley
4. Freedom Charles Guignon
5. Ontotheology Iain Thomson
Part II. Interpreting Heidegger's Interpretation: 6. Being at the beginning: Heidegger's interpretation of Heraclitus Daniel O. Dahlstrom
7. Being-affected: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the pathology of truth Josh Hayes
8. Heidegger's interpretation of Kant Stephan Käufer
9. The death of God and the life of being: Heidegger's confrontation with Nietzsche Tracy Colony
10. Heidegger's poetics of relationality Andrew Mitchell
Part III. Interpreting Heidegger's Critics: 11. Analyzing Heidegger: a history of analytic reactions to Heidegger Lee Braver
12. Lévinas and Heidegger: a strange conversation Wayne Froman
13. Derrida's reading of Heidegger Françoise Dastur.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF]