Being and truth / Martin Heidegger ; translated by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Series:

Studies in Continental thought.

Studies in Continental thought

Standardized Title:

Sein und Wahrheit. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Truth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. 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 and celebrate the revolutionary spirit of the time

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Translators' Foreword; THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF PHILOSOPHY Summer Semester 1933; Introduction; 1. The spiritual-political mission as a decision for thefundamental question; 2. The Greek questioning in poetry and thought and the inception of philosophy.; 3. What philosophy is not. Rejection of inadequate attempts to define it; 4. The fundamental question of philosophy and the confrontation with the history of the Western spirit in its highest position: Hegel; Main Part The Fundamental Question and Metaphysics: Preparation for a Confrontation with Hegel

Chapter One The Development, Transformation, and Christianization of Traditional Metaphysics5. Considerations for the confrontation with Hegel; 6. The concept of metaphysics and its transformation up to the time of classical modern metaphysics; a) The origin of the concept of metaphysics as a bibliographical title for particular Aristotelian writings; b) From the bibliographical title to the substantive concept.The Christian transformation of the concept of metaphysics: knowledge of the supersensible (trans physicam)

7. Kant's critical question regarding the possibility of metaphysical cognition and the classical division of metaphysicsa) On the influence of the Christianization of the concept of metaphysics; b) The three rational disciplines of modern metaphysics and Kant's question regarding the inner possibility and limits of metaphysical cognition as cognition on the basis of pure reason; Chapter Two The System of Modern Metaphysics and the First of Its Primary Determining Grounds: The Mathematical; 8. Preliminary remarks on the concept and meaning of the mathematical in metaphysics

a) The task: a historical return to the turning points in theconcept of metaphysicsb) The Greek concept of the teachable and learnable (τα ̀μαθημ́ατα) and the inner connection between the"mathematical" and the "methodological"; 9. The precedence of the mathematical and its advance decision regarding the content of modern philosophy: the possible idea of knowability and truth; 10. Modern metaphysics in its illusory new inception with Descartes and its errors; a) The usual picture of Descartes: the rigorous new grounding of philosophy on the basis of radical doubt

b) The illusion of radicalism and the new grounding in Descartes under the predominance of the mathematical conception of methodc) The substantive consequence of the predominance of themathematical conception of method; 11. The predominance of the mathematical conception of method in the formation of metaphysical systems in the eighteenth century; 12. Introductory concepts from Wolff's Ontology. The point of departure: the philosophical principles of all human cognition

Chapter Three Determination by Christianity and the Concept of Mathematical-Methodological Grounding in the Metaphysical Systems of Modernity

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612818394

9781282818392

1282818392

9780253004659

0253004659

OCLC:

678869653