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    Heidegger For Beginners
    Heidegger For Beginners
    Heidegger For Beginners
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    Heidegger For Beginners

    By Eric Lemay, Jennifer A. Pitts and Paul Gordon

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    The ideas of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger have been described as an intellectual time bomb, as some of the most revolutionary thought in Western history. Despite the enormous amount of secondary scholarships available on Heidegger, it is – due to the complexity of his thought and the density of his writing – difficult for the curious beginner to gain an insight into Heidegger’s philosophy. Heidegger For Beginners serves as an entry into the ideas of on of the 20th Century’s most important thinkers, situating Heidegger’s thought within its philosophical and historical context – alongside such thinkers as Plato, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, and Sartre.

    Heidegger For Beginners     explicates many of Heidegger’s central ideas, including the Nothing, average-everydayness, care, existence, being-in-the-world, the One, the critique of technology, anxiety, and most importantly, being – a notion which may offer us the key to understanding the very mystery of our own existence. Explained here in a way that makes it both accessible and relevant, Heidegger’s thought not only challenges an entire intellectual tradition, but also challenges our own self-conceptions, the very manner in which we, as humans, choose to exist. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFor Beginners
    Release dateAug 21, 2007
    ISBN9781939994097
    Heidegger For Beginners
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    Eric Lemay

    Eric LeMay received an M.F.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature at Northwestern University. An award-winning teacher, he has taught at Harvard, Columbia, and is currently a faculty member at his alma mater, Ohio University.  He has worked as an editor at The Poetry Society of America, TriQuarterly, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and has recently become the Web Editor for Alimentum: The Literature of Food.  His previous work has appeared in The Nation, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, and The Harvard Review; it has been noted in the Best American Essays series and featured on Poetry Daily.  He has published one book of poems.

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    Heidegger For Beginners - Eric Lemay

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    For Beginners LLC

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    Text Copyright: © 1994 Eric C. LeMay and Jennifer A. Pitts

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    v3.1

    To Dr. James Edwards and Dr. Albert Mosley:

    "Yet releasement toward

    things and openness to the

    mystery never happen of

    themselves. They do not

    befall us accidentally.

    Both Flourish only through

    persistent, courageous

    thinking."

    Heidegger Memorial Address

    Introduction and Background

    The Ancient Greeks

    Descartes

    From Rousseau to Kant

    Nietzsche

    Kierkegaard and Husserl

    …enter Heidegger

    Being

    Dasein

    The One

    Existentialism

    The Thinking Thing: Human-Centered Philosophy

    Technology and Authenticity

    Language — the house of Being

    To be.

    Heidegger’s Influence

    Heidegger & Nazism

    Further Reading

    A sampling of Heidegger’s works available in English

    Man… is not merely a living

    creature possessing among

    other faculties that of language.

    Language is rather the house of

    Being and man exists dwelling

    therein as he guards the truth of

    Being to which he belongs.

    Introduction and Background

    At a secluded cottage in Germany’s Black Forest region, a thinker presents us with the challenge of our modern age…

    The world and everything in it exists to be used—by us! Why? Because we are human; because we give the world its frame of reference; because we think.

    For a clear understanding of Heidegger’s philosophy, it is necessary to go back a few thousand years and familiarize ourselves with some of the ancient Greeks who started things off by asking a few nagging questions…

    The Ancient Greeks

    During each disembodied state, we

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