Companion to Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy

by Scott, Charles E.; Schoenbohm, Susan; Vallega-Neu, Daniela; Vallega, Alejandro Arturo

• ISBN13: 9780253214652
• ISBN10: 0253214653
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

The publication of the first English translation of Martin Heidegger's Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) marked a significant event for Heidegger studies. Considered by scholars to be Heidegger's most important work after Being and Time, Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) elaborates what he calls "being-historical-thinking," a project in which he undertakes to reshape what it means both to think and to be.Contributions is an indispensable book for scholars and students of Heidegger, but it is also one of the most difficult because of its aphoristic style and new and strange words. In the Companion to Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy an international group of fourteen Heidegger scholars shares strategies for reading and understanding this challenging work. Overall approaches for becoming familiar with Heidegger's unique language and thinking are included along with detailed readings of key sections of the work. Experienced readers and those coming to the text for the first time will find the Companion an invaluable guide to this pivotal text in Heidegger's philosophical corpus.Contributors include Walter A. Brogan, David Crownfield, Parvis Emad, Günter Figal, Kenneth Maly, William McNeill, Richard Polt, John Sallis, Susan Schoenbohm, Charles E. Scott, Dennis J. Schmidt, Alejandro Vallega, DanielaVallega-Neu, and Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann.

Author Biography

Charles E. Scott is Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He is author of The Question of Ethics, On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics, (both Indiana University Press)and The Time of Memory.

Susan Schoenbohm has taught philosophy at Vanderbilt University, The University of the South, and The Pennsylvania State University. She has published several articles on Heidegger, contemporary Continental thought,ancient Greek thought, and ancient Asian thought.

Alejandro Vallega teaches philosophy at California State University, Stanislaus.

Daniela Vallega-Neu teaches philosophy at California State University, Stanislaus. She is author of Die Notwendigkeit der Grundung in Zeitalter der Deconstruction: Zur Grundung in Heideggers Beitr+ñge zur Philosophie Unter Hinzuziehung der Derridischen Deconstruction.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Approaching Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy and Its Companion	1	(15)
Charles E. Scott
Part 1. Approaches
Reading Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy: An Orientation	15	(17)
Susan M. Schoenbohm
Strategies for a Possible Reading	32	(16)
Dennis J. Schmidt
``Beyng-Historical Thinking'' in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy	48	(18)
Alejandro Vallega
Poietic Saying	66	(15)
Daniela Vallega-Neu
The Event of Enthinking the Event	81	(24)
Richard Polt
Contributions to Philosophy and Enowning-Historical Thinking	105	(24)
Friedrich Wilhelm von Herrmann
Part 2. Readings
The Time of Contributions to Philosophy	129	(21)
William McNeill
Turnings in Essential Swaying and the Leap	150	(21)
Kenneth Maly
Da-sein and the Leap of Being	171	(10)
Walter A. Brogan
Grounders of the Abyss	181	(17)
John Sallis
Forgetfulness of God: Concerning the Center of Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy	198	(15)
Gunter Figal
The Last God	213	(16)
David Crownfield
On ``Be-ing'': The Last part of Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning)	229	(18)
Parvis Emad
Contributors	247	(4)
Index	251