<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>

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>

Martin Heidegger

Books By Martin Heidegger (7 Books)

German Existentialism

Essays in Metaphysics

The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection

Logic

The Event

Country Path Conversations

Contributions to Philosophy

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