<div><B>These pro-Nazi speeches by the author <I>Being and Time</I> are collected here to demonstrate the truly dark and shameful turn taken by the eminent philosopher.</B><BR /><BR /> &ldquo;On the day of German Labor, on the day of the Community of the People, the Rector of Freiburg University, Dr. Martin Heidegger, made his official entry into the National Socialist Party.&rdquo; And so begins one of the most controversial texts available today. Heidegger, a German Nationalist and proud Nazi, thoroughly examines the history, the philosophy, and the rise to power of the Nazi movement in Germany.<BR />  <BR /> Martin Heidegger&rsquo;s distinguished Italian colleague, Professor Benedetto Croce, said of his German contemporary, &ldquo;This man dishonors philosophy and that is an evil for politics too.&rdquo; Croce&rsquo;s severe rebuke was not singular at the time when Hitlerism was rampant over Europe. It is true that among the almost one thousand professional philosophers of Germany and Austria only very few actively opposed National Socialism. On the other hand, no one degraded his history profession in the way that Heidegger did, by becoming a spokesman for National socialism and attempting to mold his theories into one pattern with Hitlerism.<BR />  </div>

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German Existentialism

<div>The two lectures translated here were published in 1957 under the title <I>Identitat und Differenz</I>. The sensitive and attentive reader will come away with a feeling that he now knows Heidegger, the man, the teacher, better. Heidegger provides illuminating insights and thoughts on many a vital issue&mdash;our technological age, religion, language, history, and more&mdash;all of which he touches upon here, if only epigrammatically. What makes Heidegger important is his receptiveness, his sensitivity, his ability to be at the heart of the problem and &ldquo;see&rdquo; and &ldquo;hear&rdquo; when others see and hear nothing.<BR /></div>

Essays in Metaphysics

<div><B>Explore the work of three great existential philosophers together in this collection.</B><BR />  <BR /> Hasidism: Zionist philosopher Martin Buber shares the results of forty years of study and introduces the philosophies of Hasidism to a Western audience. In this modern masterpiece, Buber interprets the ideas and motives that underlie the great Jewish religious movement of Hasidism and its creator, Baal Shem.<BR />  <BR /> Essays in Metaphysics: German philosopher Martin Heidegger presents two lectures in which he explores the nature of identity in the history of metaphysics. He offers illuminating insights on vital issues like technology, religion, language, history, and more.<BR />  <BR /> The Emotions: French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre attempts to understand the role emotions play in the human psyche. Sartre analyzes fear, lust, anguish, and melancholy while asserting that human beings begin to develop emotional capabilities from a very early age, which helps them identify and understand the emotions&rsquo; names and qualities later in life.</div>

The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection

<div><B>Heidegger&rsquo;s radical thinking on the meaning of truth in a &ldquo;clear and comprehensive critical edition&rdquo; (<I>Philosophy in Review</I>).</B><BR />  <BR /> Martin Heidegger&rsquo;s 1925&ndash;26 lectures on truth and time provided much of the basis for his momentous work, <I>Being and Time</I>. Not published until 1976&mdash;three months before Heidegger&rsquo;s death&mdash;as volume 21 of his Complete Works, it is nonetheless central to Heidegger&rsquo;s overall project of reinterpreting Western thought in terms of time and truth.<BR />  <BR /> The text shows the degree to which Aristotle underlies Heidegger&rsquo;s hermeneutical theory of meaning. It also contains Heidegger&rsquo;s first published critique of Husserl and takes major steps toward establishing the temporal bases of logic and truth. Thomas Sheehan&rsquo;s elegant and insightful translation offers English-speaking readers access to this fundamental text for the first time.</div>

Logic

<div><B>This elegantly translated collection of Heidegger&rsquo;s private later writings is &ldquo;illuminating to some of his most difficult discussions.&rdquo; (Phillip Braunstein, Loyola Marymount College).</B><BR />  <BR /> Martin Heidegger&rsquo;s <I>The Event</I> offers the most in-depth articulation of his later work&rsquo;s most foundational concept, as well as his most substantial self-critique of his <I>Contributions to Philosophy: Of the Event</I>. Written between 1936 and 1944, and published posthumously as volume 71 of his Complete Works, <I>The Event</I> collects Heidegger&rsquo;s private writings in response to his <I>Contributions</I>.<BR />  <BR /> Richard Rojcewicz&rsquo;s faithful and straightforward translation offers the English-speaking reader intimate contact with the author&rsquo;s process of formulating some of his most important concepts. This book lays out how the Event is to be understood and ties it closely to looking, showing, self-manifestation, and the self-unveiling of the gods.</div>

The Event

<div><B>The philosopher&rsquo;s meditations on nature, technology, and evil, written in the final years of WWII, presented in &ldquo;clear and highly readable translation&rdquo; (<I>Philosophy in Review</I>).</B><BR />  <BR /> First published in German in 1995, volume 77 of Heidegger&rsquo;s Complete Works consists of three imaginary conversations written as World War II was coming to an end. Composed at a crucial moment in history and in Heidegger&rsquo;s own thinking, these conversations present meditations on science and technology; the devastation of nature, World War II, and the nature of evil.<BR />  <BR /> Heidegger also delves into the possibility of release from representational thinking into a more authentic relation with being and the world. The first conversation involves a scientist, a scholar, and a guide walking together on a country path; the second takes place between a teacher and a tower-warden, and the third features a younger man and an older man in a prisoner-of-war camp in Russia, where Heidegger&rsquo;s two sons were missing in action.<BR />  <BR /> Unique because of their conversational style, this lucid and precise translation of these texts offers insight into the issues that engaged Heidegger&rsquo;s wartime and postwar thinking.</div>

Country Path Conversations

<div><B>Heidegger&rsquo;s second magnum opus after <I>Being and Time</I>, laying the groundwork for his later writing, in a translation of &ldquo;impeccable clarity and readability&rdquo; (Peter Warnek).</B><BR />  <BR /> Martin Heidegger&rsquo;s <I>Contributions to Philosophy</I>, written in the late 1930s and published posthumously in 1989, is now widely viewed as his second magnum opus, after <I>Being and Time</I>. Here, Heidegger lays the groundwork for a new conception of thought and being, rooting them both in the event of appropriation. Here, Heidegger establishes the language and intellectual framework necessary for all of his later writings.<BR />  <BR /><I>Contributions</I> was composed as a series of private ponderings that were not originally intended for publication. They are nonlinear and radically at odds with the traditional understanding of thinking. This translation presents Heidegger in plain and straightforward terms, allowing surer access to this new turn in Heidegger&rsquo;s conception of being.</div>

Contributions to Philosophy

<div><B>An exploration of the terrain of consciousness in the light of its temporality from the father of phenomenology.</B><BR /><BR /> The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness is a translation of Edmund Husserl&rsquo;s <I>Vorlesungen zur Ph&auml;nomenologie des inneren Zeitbewu&szlig;tseins</I>. The first part of the book was originally presented as a lecture course at the University of G&ouml;ttingen in the winter semester of 1904&ndash;1905, while the second part is based on additional supplementary lectures that he gave between 1905 and 1910. The pervading theme of these essays and lectures is the temporal constitution of a pure datum of sensation and the self-constitution of &ldquo;phenomenological time&rdquo; which underlies such a constitution. Husserl identifies two categories of temporality&mdash;retention and protention&mdash;and outlines how temporality provides the form for perception, phantasy, imagination, memory, and recollection. He demonstrates a distinction between cosmic and phenomenological time and explores the relevance of phenomenological time for the constitution of temporal objects. The ideas Husserl developed here are explored further in his <I>Ideas</I> and were pursued until the end of his philosophical career.<BR /><BR /><B>&ldquo;As an addition to the small body of Husserl&rsquo;s writings now available in English (Ideas 1931; Meditations, 1960), this book is essential to even a small collection of source works on contemporary philosophy.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Choice</I></B></div>

The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness

<div><B>“[This] updated translation showcases what is a central and often-overlooked text in Heidegger’s oeuvre” and essential to understanding his later work (Phenomenological Reviews).</B><br/><br/>The History of Beyng belongs to a series of Martin Heidegger’s reflections from the 1930s that concern how to think about being not merely as a series of occurrences, but as essentially historical or fundamentally as an event. It builds directly on an earlier work in the series, Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event), and provides a pathway to the later text, <I>Mindfulness</I>.<br/><br/>Together, these texts are important for their meditations on the oblivion and abandonment of being, politics, and race, and for their incisive critique of power, force, and violence. Originally published in 1998, this English translation opens new avenues for understanding the trajectory of Heidegger’s thinking during this crucial time.</div>

The History of Beyng

<div><B>“Translated with skill and precision, these lectures . . . present the most penetrating analysis of two of Hölderlin’s most significant hymns” (<I>Choice</I>).</B><br/><br/>Martin Heidegger’s 1934–1935 lectures on Friedrich Hölderlin’s hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine” are considered the most significant among Heidegger’s lectures on Hölderlin. Coming at a crucial time in his career, the text illustrates Heidegger’s turn toward language, art, and poetry while reflecting his despair at his failure to revolutionize the German university and his hope for a more profound revolution through the German language, guided by Hölderlin’s poetry.<br/><br/>These lectures are important for understanding Heidegger’s changing relation to politics, his turn toward Nietzsche, his thinking about the German language, and his breakthrough to a new kind of poetic thinking.<br/><br/><B>“[This translation], including a clear and concise introduction and useful glossaries, attains both accuracy and clarity, rarely faltering in its choice of words.” —<I>Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews</I></B></div>

Holderlin's Hymns

<div><B>The eminent German philosopher’s unique analysis of Ancient Greek philosophy and its relation to his own pioneering work.</B><br/><br/>Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy presents a lecture course given by Martin Heidegger in 1926 at the University of Marburg. The book provides Heidegger’s most systematic history of Ancient philosophy beginning with Thales and ending with Aristotle. In this lecture, which coincides with the completion of his most important work, Being and Time, Heidegger is working out a way to sharply differentiate between beings and Being.<br/><br/>Richard Rojcewicz’s clear and accurate translation offers English-speaking readers valuable insight into Heidegger’s views on Ancient thought and concepts such as principle, cause, nature, unity, multiplicity, Logos, truth, science, soul, category, and motion.</div>

Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy

<div><B>Through a close reading of two presocratic philosophers, Heidegger demonstrates that all of Western philosophy is rooted in the question of Being.</B><br/><br/>This volume comprises a lecture course given at the University of Freiburg in 1932, five years after the publication of Being and Time. During this period, Heidegger was at the height of his creative powers, which are on full display in this clear and imaginative text.<br/><br/>Heidegger analyses two of the earliest philosophical source documents, fragments by Greek thinkers Anaximander and Parmenides. Heidegger develops their common theme of Being and non-being and shows that the question of Being is indeed the origin of Western philosophy. His engagement with these Greek texts is as much of a return to beginnings as it is a potential reawakening of philosophical wonder and inquiry in the present.</div>

The Beginning of Western Philosophy

<div><B>This volume presents Heidegger’s 1924 Marburg lectures which lay the intellectual groundwork for his magnum opus, <I>Being and Time.</I></B><br/><br/>Here are the seeds of the ideas that would become Heidegger’s unique and highly influential phenomenology. Heidegger interprets Aristotle’s <I>Rhetoric</I> and looks closely at the Greek notion of pathos. These lectures offer special insight into the development of his concepts of care and concern, being-at-hand, being-in-the-world, and attunement, which were later elaborated in <I>Being and Time.</I><br/><br/>Available in English for the first time, these lectures make a significant contribution to ancient philosophy, Aristotle studies, Continental philosophy, and phenomenology.</div>

Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy

<div><B>“This excellent translation” presents Heidegger’s mature thought on the essence of Truth as he was writing his major work, <I>Contributions to Philosophy</I> (<I>Library Journal</I>).</B><br/><br/>This is the first English translation of a lecture course Martin Heidegger presented at the University of Freiburg in 1937–1938. Heidegger’s task here is to reassert the question of the essence of truth, not as a “problem” or as a matter of “logic,” but precisely as a genuine philosophical question, in fact the one basic question of philosophy. Thus, this course is about the essence of truth as well as the essence of philosophy itself.<br/><br/>On both sides Heidegger draws extensively upon the ancient Greeks, on their understanding of truth as aletheia and their determination of the beginning of philosophy as the disposition of wonder. In addition, these lectures were presented at the time that Heidegger was composing his second magnum opus, Beiträge zur Philosophie, and provide the single best introduction to that complex and crucial text.</div>

Basic Questions of Philosophy

<div><B>An “excellent translation” of an essential text by the author of <I>Being and Time</I>, in which he continues his pioneering work in phenomenology (<I>Times Literary Supplement,</I> UK).</B><br/><br/>A lecture course that Martin Heidegger gave in 1927, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology continues and extends explorations begun in Being and Time. In this text, Heidegger provides the general outline of his thinking about the fundamental problems of philosophy, which he treats by means of phenomenology, and which he defines and explains as the basic problem of ontology.<br/><br/><B>“For all students and scholars, Basic Problems will provide the “missing link” between Husserl and Heidegger, between phenomenology and Being and Time.” —<I>Teaching Philosophy</I></B></div>

The Basic Problems of Phenomenology

<div><B>In this collection of early lectures, the author of <I>Being and Time</I> defines and begins to develop his unique approach to phenomenology.</B><br/><br/>This volume contains the first lectures Martin Heidegger delivered at Marburg in the winter semester of 1923–1924. In them, he introduces the notion of phenomenology by tracing it back to Aristotle’s treatments of phainomenon and logos. This extensive commentary on Aristotle is an important addition to Heidegger’s ongoing interpretations which accompany his thinking during the period leading up to Being and Time.<br/><br/>Additionally, these lectures develop critical differences between Heidegger’s phenomenology and that of Descartes and Husserl and elaborate questions of facticity, everydayness, and flight from existence that are central in his later work. Here, Heidegger dismantles the history of ontology and charts a new course for phenomenology by defining and distinguishing his own methods.</div>

Introduction to Phenomenological Research

<div><B>This probing analysis of the history of ontology is “of enormous significance for students of the development of Heidegger’s early thought” (Daniel O. Dahlstrom <I>Boston University</I>).</B><br/><br/>First published in 1988<I>, Ontology—The Hermeneutics of Facticity</I> is the text of Heidegger’s lecture course at the University of Freiburg during the summer of 1923. In these lectures, Heidegger reviews and makes critical appropriations of the hermeneutic tradition from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to Schleiermacher and Dilthey. Through this critical survey, he reformulates the question of being on the basis of facticity and the everyday world.<br/><br/>Specific themes deal with the history of ontology, the development of phenomenology and its relation to Hegelian dialectic, traditional theological and philosophical concepts of man, the present situation of philosophy, and the influences of Aristotle, Luther, Kierkegaard, and Husserl on Heidegger’s thinking. Students of Heidegger will find initial breakthroughs in his unique elaboration of the meaning of human experience and the “question of being,” which received mature expression in <I>Being and Time.</I></div>

Ontology—The Hermeneutics of Facticity

<div><B>The philosopher presents a stimulating overview of his work, its intellectual roots, and its relationship to the work of other twentieth century thinkers.</B><br/><br/>In <I>Four Seminars</I>, Heidegger reviews the entire trajectory of his thought and offers unique perspectives on fundamental aspects of his work. First published in French in 1976, these seminars were translated into German with Heidegger’s approval and reissued in 1986 as part of his Gesamtausgabe, volume 15. Topics considered include the Greek understanding of presence, the ontological difference, the notion of system in German Idealism, the power of naming, the problem of technology, danger, and the event.<br/><br/>Heidegger’s engagements with his philosophical forebears—Parmenides, Heraclitus, Kant, and Hegel—continue in surprising dialogues with his contemporaries—Husserl, Marx, and Wittgenstein. While providing important insights into how Heidegger conducted his lectures, these seminars show him in his maturity, reflecting back on his philosophical path.</div>

Four Seminars

<div><B>The eminent philosopher delivers an illuminating interpretation of Kant’s magnum opus in what is itself a significant work of Western philosophy.</B><br/><br/>The text of Martin Heidegger’s 1927–28 university lecture course on Emmanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason presents a close interpretive reading of the first two parts of this masterpiece of modern philosophy. In this course, Heidegger continues the task he enunciated in Being and Time as the problem of dismantling the history of ontology, using temporality as a clue.<br/><br/>Heidegger demonstrates that the relation between philosophy, ontology, and fundamental ontology is rooted in the genesis of the modern mathematical sciences. He also shows that objectification of beings as beings is inseparable from knowledge a priori, the central problem of Kant’s Critique. He concludes that objectification rests on the productive power of imagination, a process that involves temporality, which is the basic constitution of humans as beings.</div>

Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

<div><B>This “excellent translation” of Heidegger’s writings on Hegel shows an essential engagement between two of the foundational thinkers of phenomenology (<I>Phenomenological Reviews</I>).</B><br/><br/>While Martin Heidegger’s writings on Hegel are notoriously difficult, this volume provides a clear and careful translation of two important texts—a treatise on negativity, and a penetrating reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.<br/><br/>In these stimulating works, Heidegger relates his interpretation of Hegel to his own thought on the event, taking up themes developed in Contributions to Philosophy. While many parts of the text are fragmentary in nature, these interpretations are considered some of the most significant as they bring Hegel into Heidegger’s philosophical trajectory.</div>

Hegel

<div><B>In this early lecture series, the author of <I>Being and Time</I> develops his unique approach to understanding humanity’s relationship to the world.</B><br/><br/>This volume presents a collection of Martin Heidegger’s lectures delivered at the University of Freiburg in the winter of 1921–1922. Preceding Being and Time, the work shows the young Heidegger introducing novel vocabulary as he searches for his genuine philosophical voice.<br/><br/>In this course, Heidegger first takes up the role of the definition of philosophy and then elaborates a unique analysis of “factical life,” or human life as it is lived concretely in relation to the world, a relation he calls “caring.” Heidegger’s descriptions of the movement of life are original and striking. As he works out a phenomenology of factical life, Heidegger lays the groundwork for a phenomenological interpretation of Aristotle, whose influence on Heidegger’s philosophy was pivotal.</div>

Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle

<div><B>“This faithful and readable translation . . . serves as a critical orientation to interpreting Heidegger’s later thought” inspired by Hölderlin’s poetry (Christopher D. Merwin, Emory University).</B><br/><br/>Over the course of 1941–42, Martin Heidegger delivered a lecture course on Friedrich Hölderlin’s hymn, “Remembrance.” Immediately following his confrontation with Nietzsche, it lays out a detailed plan for the interpretation of Hölderlin’s poetry in which remembrance is a central concern. With its emphasis on the “free use of the national” and the “holy of the fatherland,” the course marks an important progression in Heidegger’s political thought.<br/><br/>In addition to its startlingly innovative analyses of greeting, the festive, and the dream, the text provides Heidegger’s fullest elaboration of the structure of commemorative thinking in relationship to time and the possibility of an “other beginning.” This English translation by William McNeill and Julia Ireland completes the series of Heidegger’s major lecture courses on Hölderlin.</div>

Holderlin's Hymn "Remembrance"

<div><B>“Scrupulously prepared and eminently readable,” this volume presents Heidegger’s most important lectures on religion from 1920–21 (<I>Choice</I>).</B><br/><br/>In the early 1920s, Martin Heidegger delivered his famous lecture course, Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion, at the University of Freiburg. He also prepared notes for a course on The Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism that was never delivered. Though he never prepared this material for publication, it represents a significant evolution in his philosophical perspective.<br/><br/>Heidegger’s engagements with Aristotle, Neoplatonism, St. Paul, Augustine, and Martin Luther give readers a sense of what phenomenology would come to mean in the mature expression of his thought. Heidegger reveals an impressive display of theological knowledge, protecting Christian life experience from Greek philosophy and defending Paul against Nietzsche.</div>

The Phenomenology of Religious Life

<div><B>A “well-crafted and careful rendering of an important and demanding volume” covering the philosopher’s views on language, life, and politics (Andrew Mitchell, Emory University).</B><br/><br/>In these lectures, delivered in 1933-1934 while he was Rector of the University of Freiburg and an active supporter of the National Socialist regime, Martin Heidegger addresses the history of metaphysics and the notion of truth from Heraclitus to Hegel.<br/><br/>First published in German in 2001, these two lecture courses offer a sustained encounter with Heidegger’s thinking during a period when he attempted to give expression to his highest ambitions for a philosophy engaged with politics and the world. While the lectures are strongly nationalistic, they also attack theories of racial supremacy in an attempt to stake out a distinctively Heideggerian understanding of what it means to be a people. This careful translation offers valuable insight into Heidegger’s views on language, truth, animality, and life, as well as his political thought and activity.</div>

Being and Truth

<div><B>This volume presents two important lecture cycles delivered after WWII, exploring the poetry of Hölderlin and the nature of thought itself.</B><br/><br/>Heidegger delivered his lecture series, <I>Insight into That Which Is</I>, at Bremen in 1949. It was his first speaking engagement after World War II, when he was officially banned from teaching. Here, Heidegger openly resumes thinking that deeply engaged him with Hölderlin’s poetry and themes developed in his earlier works.<br/><br/>In the Freiburg lectures, delivered in 1957, Heidegger ponders thought itself and freely engages with the German idealists and Greek thinkers who had provoked him in the past. Andrew J. Mitchell’s translation allows English-speaking readers to explore important connections with Heidegger’s earlier works on language, logic, and reality.</div>

Bremen and Freiburg Lectures

<div><B>A “readable and fluent” translation of a work that demonstrates a crucial shift in Heidegger’s approach to Nietzsche in the late 1930s (<I>Phenomenological Reviews</I>).</B><br/><br/>In Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation, Martin Heidegger offers a radically different reading of a text that he had read decades earlier. This evolution in his relationship with Nietzsche has a significant impact on his understandings of the differences between animals and humans, temporality and history, and the Western philosophical tradition developed.<br/><br/>With his new reading, Heidegger delineates three Nietzschean modes of history, which should be understood as grounded in the structure of temporality or historicity. He also offers a metaphysical determination of life and the essence of humankind. Despite the fragmentary and disjointed quality of the original lecture notes that comprise this text, Ullrich Hasse and Mark Sinclair deliver a clear and accessible translation.</div>

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