Heidegger: Off the Beaten Track

by Martin Heidegger , Edited and translated by Julian Young , Kenneth Haynes

• ISBN13: 9780521805070
• ISBN10: 0521805074
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This collection of texts (originally published in German under the title Holzwege) is Heidegger’s first post-war book and contains some of the major expositions of his later philosophy. Of particular note are 'The Origin of the Work of Art’, perhaps the most discussed of all of Heidegger’s essays, and 'Nietzsche’s Word 'God is Dead’,’ which sums up a decade of Nietzsche research. Although translations of the essays have appeared individually in a variety of places, this is the first English translation to bring them all together as Heidegger intended. The text is taken from the last edition of the work, which contains the author’s final corrections together with important marginal annotations that provide considerable insight into the development of his thought. This fresh and accurate new translation will be an invaluable resource for all students of Heidegger, whether they work in philosophy, literary theory, religious studies, or intellectual history.

Table of Contents

Translators' preface	ix
The Origin of the Work of Art (1935--36)	1	(56)
The thing and the work	4	(15)
The work and truth	19	(14)
Truth and art	33	(17)
Afterword	50	(2)
Appendix	52	(5)
The Age of the World Picture (1938)	57	(29)
Appendices	73	(13)
Hegel's Concept of Experience (1942--43)	86	(71)
Nietzsche's Word: ``God Is Dead'' (1943)	157	(43)
Why Poets? (1946)	200	(42)
Anaximander's Saying (1946)	242	(40)
Notes	282	(3)
List of sources	285	(2)
Editor's epilogue to the seventh edition of Holzwege	287	(3)
Glossary	290