The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger

by Edited by Charles B. Guignon

• ISBN13: 9780521528887
• ISBN10: 0521528887
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Abbreviations: Works by Heidegger	xiii
Chronology	xix
Preface to the second edition	xxi
Introduction	1	(267)
CHARLES B. GUIGNON
1. The question of being: Heidegger's project	42	(28)
DOROTHEA FREDE
2. Reading a life: Heidegger and hard times	70	(27)
THOMAS SHEEHAN
3. The principle of phenomenology	97	(23)
TAYLOR CARMAN
4. Time and phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger	120	(29)
ROBERT J. DOSTAL
5. Laying the ground for metaphysics: Heidegger's appropriation of Kant	149	(28)
WILLIAM BLATTNER
6. Heidegger and the hermeneutic turn	177	(25)
DAVID COUZENS HOY
7. Engaged agency and background in Heidegger	202	(20)
CHARLES TAYLOR
8. Death, time, history: Division II of Being and Time	222	(19)
PIOTR HOFFMAN
9. Truth and the essence of truth in Heidegger's thought	241	(27)
MARK A. WRATHALL
10. Authenticity, moral values, and psychotherapy	268	(25)
CHARLES B. GUIGNON
11. Heidegger, Buddhism, and deep ecology	293	(33)
MICHAEL E. ZIMMERMAN
12. Heidegger and theology	326	(19)
JOHN D. CAPUTO
13. Heidegger on the connection between nihilism, art, technology, and politics	345	(28)
HUBERT L. DREYFUS
14. The fourfold	373	(20)
JULIAN YOUNG
Bibliography	393	(26)
Index	419