The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger

This edition includes a new preface, revised versions of several essays, and an exhaustive bibliography.

Charles B. Guignon (Edited by)

9780521821360, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 10 July 2006

456 pages
23.4 x 15.8 x 33.2 cm, 0.729 kg

"To an impressive extent, it manages to be useful for those fresh to Heidegger and for those already immersed." --Nicholas Joll, University of Essex and Hertfordshire: Philosophy in Review

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.

Subject Areas: Fascism & Nazism [JPFQ], Political science & theory [JPA], History of ideas [JFCX], Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF]