On inception / Martin Heidegger ; translated by Peter Hanly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976, author.

Contributor:

Hanly, Peter, translator.

Series:

Studies in Continental thought

Standardized Title:

Über den Anfang. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Beginning--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xi, 171 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"On Inception is a translation of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe 70. This work belongs to the crucial period, before and during WWII, when Heidegger was at work on a series of treatises that begins with "Contributions to Philosophy" and includes "The Event" and "The History of Beyng." These works are difficult, even hermetic, but represent a crucial development in Heidegger's thinking. On Inception deepens the investigation underway in the other volumes of the series and provides a unique perspective on Heidegger's thinking of Being and of Event. Here, Heidegger asks, with a greater insistence than anywhere else in his work, what it might mean to think of being as event, and not as presence. Event cannot be thought without the sense of a beginning - an inception - and so, Heidegger insists, we must try to think of being as inception, as fundamentally inceptive. On Inception pursues rigorously the difficult and puzzling implications of this speculation. It does not merely extend work already undertaken but also opens doors onto wholly other pathways"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translated from a manuscript dating from 1941 and an associated typescript which was published as volume 70 of the Gesamtausgabe under the title Über den Anfang.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. On inception

ISBN:

9780253066848

0253066840

OCLC:

1346532884

Publisher Number:

99994415413