Martin Heidegger (Routledge Critical Thinkers) - Softcover

Clark, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415590906 ISBN 13: 9780415590907

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Since the publication of his mammoth work, Being and Time, Martin Heidegger has remained one of the most influential figures in contemporary thought, and is a key influence for modern literary and cultural theory.

This guidebook provides an ideal entry-point for readers new to Heidegger, outlining such issues and concepts as:

• the limits of 'theory'
• the history of being
• the origin of the work of art
• language
• the literary work
• poetry and the political
• Heidegger's involvement with Nazism.

Fully updated throughout and featuring a new section on enviromental thought and ecocriticism, this guidebook clearly and concisely introduces Heidegger's crucial work relating to art, language and poetry, and outlines his continuing influence on critical theory.

About this title

About the Author

Timothy Clark is based at Durham University. He is co-editor of the Oxford Literary Review and author of Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot: Sources of Derrida's Notion and Practice of Literature (1992), The Theory of Inspiration (2000), The Poetics of Singularlity (2006) and The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment(2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415590906
• ISBN 13: 9780415590907
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224