292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
Critical Heidegger brings together a selection of the best work on Martin Heidegger from a number of key commentators working in Europe. These new and classic essays, for the most part translated from German and French originals, are an essential guide to the current European reception of Heidegger and make available essays that have had considerable impact on English-language Heidegger studies.... Read more
Introduction, The mirror with the triple reflection; Dasein as praxis: the Heideggerian assimilation and radicalization of the practical philosophy of Aristotle; Heidegger and Descartes; Heidegger's Kant interpretation; Critical remarks on the Heideggerian reading of Nietzsche; Heidegger's conception of space; The ekstatico-horizonal constitution of temporality; Way and method: hermeneutic phenomenology in thinking the history of being; The end of philosophy as the commencement of thinking; Does the saving power also grow? Heidegger's last paths; Heidegger's idea of truth; Wittgenstein and Heidegger: language games and life forms; Index
Biography
Christopher Macann is Professor of Philosophy at Regent's College, London. He undertook his doctoral work under Paul Ricoeur in Paris, since which much of his professional career has been spent in America. He is the author of Kant and the Foundations of Metaphysics (1981) and Presence and Coincidence (1990), as well as Four Phenomenological Philosophers: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty (1993). He also edited Martin Heidegger: Critical Assessments (1992). Four Phenomenological Philosophers and the four volume Heidegger collection were both published by Routledge.
