Questioning Martin Heidegger: On Western Metaphysics, Bhuddhist Ethics, and the Fate of the Sentient Earth - Hardcover

Meyer, Eric D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761860665 ISBN 13: 9780761860662

Publisher: University Press of America, 2013

Synopsis

In Questioning Martin Heidegger, Martin Heidegger’s “Overcoming Metaphysics” provides the jumping-off point for a wide-ranging critique and deconstruction of Western metaphysics from the Pre-Socratics and Sophists to Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida. Besides questioning Martin Heidegger’s controversial relationship with German National Socialism (Nazism) and the Holocaust, Questioning Martin Heidegger also takes off onto diverse topics like the question of being and the problem of nothingness, the birth of subjectivity and the death of God, and the Kehre and the emergence of a global ecological consciousness. Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, Questioning Martin Heidegger will be stimulating and exciting reading for professional scholars and enthusiastic laypersons, philosophy students and the general public.

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About the Author

Eric D. Meyer obtained his Ph.D. in English and American literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991. He is a former assistant professor and independent scholar who has spent the past twenty years studying Martin Heidegger’s “Overcoming Metaphysics.” Meyer is especially interested in the connections between Martin Heidegger’s post-Kehre texts, Zen Buddhism, and environmental philosophy. He is currently working on a study of sovereignty and subjectivity in Western philosophy entitled Maxima Moralia: The Sovereignty of Spirit and the Sacrificial Subject in Western Philosophy.

Review

Questioning Martin Heidegger is a fresh look at an often overlooked text by Martin Heidegger: ‘Overcoming Metaphysics.’ Those seeking a positive approach to the major Heideggerian themes—the questions of being, of ‘the subject,’ of nihilism, of technology, and of the overcoming of metaphysics—will find much to consider and new avenues for thinking. The book also offers a new perspective on what’s called ‘The Heidegger Controversy’: Martin Heidegger’s involvement with German National Socialism. (Gregory Fried, author of Heidegger’s Polemos: From Being to Politics)

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0761860665
• ISBN 13: 9780761860662
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 266