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by Martin Heidegger (Author), William H. McNeill (Translator), Nicholas Walker (Translator) "The course is announced under the title "The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press; New edition edition (1 May 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0253214297
  • ISBN-13: 978-0253214294
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
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"In this text, which is crucial to understanding the transition from Heidegger's earlier to his later thinking, readers will find a helpful overview of Heidegger's conception of metaphysics ... a brilliant phenomenological analysis of boredom ... an investigation of the essence of life and animality ... and an analysis of the structure of the propositional statement ... " -Review of Metaphysics "This authoritative translation is essential to any Heidegger collection." - Choice " . . an important addition to the translations of Heidegger's lecture-courses . . Heidegger's voice can be heard with few of the jolting Germanicisms with which so many translations of Heidegger's texts have been burdened..." --International Philosophical Quarterly "The translators of these lectures have succeeded splendidly in giving readers an intimation of the tensely insistent tone of the original German. Heidegger's concern with a linguistic preconsciousness and with our entrancement before the enigma of existence remains intensely contemporary." --Choice "There is much that is new and valuable in this book, and McNeill and Walker's faithful translation makes it very accessible." --Review of Metaphysics "Whoever thought that Heidegger ... has no surprises left in him had better read this volume. If its rhetoric is 'hard and heavy' its thought is even harder and essentially more daring than Heideggerians ever imagined Heidegger could be." --David Farrell Krell


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First published in German in 1938 as volume 29/30 of Heidegger's collected works, "The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics" includes an extended treatment of the history of metaphysics and an elaboration of a philosophy of life and nature. Heidegger's concepts of organism, animal behaviour, and environment are uniquely developed and defined with intensity. This work, the text of Martin Heidegger's lecture course of 1929/30, is crucial for an understanding of Heidegger's transition from the major work of his early years, "Being and Time", to his later preoccupations with language, truth, and history. First published in German in 1983 as volume 29/30 of Heidegger's collected works, "The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics" includes an extended treatment of the history of metaphysics and an elaboration of a philosophy of life and nature. Heidegger's concepts of organism, animal behavior, and environment are uniquely developed and defined with intensity.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Heidegger's brooding paced, 10 Jul 2005
By David J. Smith "loupgarou" (UK) - See all my reviews
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It seems like this volume, culled from 1929-30 lecture courses, is an ideal "companion" to Sein und Zeit. Whereas in the latter - where Heidegger appears to be writing from the middle of the book towards the covers rather than from front to back - it is only half-way through that he bothers to define fundamental concepts he has been using repeatedly, things are well-laid out here.

Here we have an attempt to uncover the originary prote philosophia, later dubbed "metaphysics" by scholastic theologians integrating Aristotle, in ignorance of its concerns, not knowing how to categorise it other than as being "after" or "away from" physics. As in Being and Time, Heidegger goes after the question of Being, in two Aristotlean forms, and tries to found a unitary question in the unthought region that preceded their split.

But these ponderous ponderings go beyond Being and Time, and serve as a bridge for some later writings and also to various poststructural philosophers who have leaned on, expanded and critiqued Heidegger (chief amongst them for me, Giorgio Agamben) in their own work. Heidegger interrogates animal behaviour, environment, technology, the political aspect of human existence, language use, etc. in ways that prefigure his later writings.

I found this work useful for getting a clearer understanding of where continental thought begins, i.e. after metaphysics (as normally understood) is subjected to "destruction" (prefiguring, in critique, something like deconstruction), and it also made Heidegger's more complex works such as Being and Time and Introduction to Metaphysics more accessible.

Full marks also, for a good accessible translation that is not dumbed-down beyond recognition.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Pontificating Heidegger, 6 Nov 2009
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I found this book nauseatingly repetitive and dense, ill-researched (like so much philosophy), heavy and depressing. Heidegger has it seems opted out of common sense and the basic communication of ideas in favour of a highly introverted and seemingly autistic approach to language and the juggling of concepts which passes off as deep thought when in fact all it is is an extremely wordy exploration of vaccuum. Why he gets so much credit for this I do not know; his style purports to be open-ended but it comes across as dictatorial and boundlessly arrogant. It is life denying to the extreme I find, undermining all forms of human endeavour by covering them all with the oppressive shroud he calls 'Being.' I give the book two stars instead of one because of a portion of the book that deals with scientific evidence so that I did learn something within the 400 pages of drivel.
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