Essays in metaphysics : identity and difference / Martin Heidegger ; cover design by Amanda Shaffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heidegger, Martin, author.

Contributor:

Shaffer, Amanda, book designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Philosophical Library, 2011.

Summary:

The two lectures translated here were published in 1957 under the title Identitat und Differenz. 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-our technological age, religion, language, history, and more-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 "see" and "hear" when others see and hear nothing.

Contents:

Title Page; Contents; Essays in Humanism; Title Page; Table of Contents; 1. Why Socialism? (1949); 2. The Negro Question (1946); 3. Science and Society (1935); 4. Towards a World Government (1946); 5. The Way Out (1946); 6. On Receiving the One World Award (1948); 7. Science and Civilization (1933); 8. A Message to Intellectuals (1948); 9. Open Letter to the General Assembly of the United Nations (1947); 10. Dr. Einstein's Mistaken Notions-An Open Letter from Sergei Vavilov, A. N. Frumkin, A. F. Joffe, and N. N. Semyonov (1947); A Reply to the Soviet Scientists (1948)

11. For an Organization of Intellectual Workers (1945)12. "Was Europe a Success?" (1934); 13. At a Gathering for Freedom of Opinion (1936); 14. Atomic War or Peace (I-1945; II-1947); 15. The War Is Won but Peace Is Not (1945); 16. The Menace of Mass Destruction (1947); 17. The Schools and the Problem of Peace (1934); 18. On Military Service (1934); 19. Military Intrusion in Science (1947); The Military Mentality; 20. International Security (1933); 21. Isaac Newton (1942); 22. Johannes Kepler (1949); 23. Marie Curie in Memoriam (1935); 24. Max Planck in Memoriam (1948)

25. Paul Langevin in Memoriam (1947)26. Walther Nernst in Memoriam (1942); 27. Paul Ehrenfest in Memoriam (1934); 28. Mahatma Gandhi (1939); 29. Carl von Ossietzky (1946); 30. Why Do They Hate the Jews? (1938); Just What Is a Jew?; Where Oppression Is a Stimulus; 31. The Dispersal of European Jewry (1948); 32. Let's Not Forget (1934); 33. Unpublished Preface to a Blackbook (1945); 34. The Goal of Human Existence (1943); 35. Our Debt to Zionism (1938); 36. To the Heroes of the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto (1944); 37. Before the Monument to the Martyred Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto (1948)

38. The Calling of the Jews (1936)39. Moses Maimonides (1935); 40. Stephen Wise (1949); 41. To the University of Jerusalem (1949); 42. The American Council for Judaism (1945); 43. The Jews of Israel (1949); Acknowledgments; The Theory of Relativity and Other Essays; Title Page; Contents; 1. The Theory of Relativity (1949); 2. E = MC2 (1946); 3. Physics and Reality (1936); General Consideration Concerning the Method of Science; Mechanics and the Attempt to Base all Physics Upon It; The Field Concept; The Theory of Relativity; Quantum Theory and the Fundamentals of Physics

Relative Theory and CorpusclesSummary; 4. The Fundamentals of Theoretical Physics (1940); 5. The Common Language of Science (1941); 6. The Laws of Science and the Laws of Ethics (1950); 7. An Elementary Derivation of the Equivalence of Mass and Energy (1946); Acknowledgments; The World As I See It; Title Page; Contents; Preface to the Original Edition; Preface to the New Authorized Edition; Introduction to the Abridged Edition; I The World As I See It; The Meaning of Life; The World As I See It; The Liberty of Doctrine-Á Propos of the Gumbel Case; Good and Evil

The True Value of a Human Being

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 5, 2016).

ISBN:

9781504040433

1504040430

OCLC:

957700878