Basic Writings: From Being and Time (1927) to The Task of Thinking (1964)

Heidegger, Martin

ISBN 10: 0710086458 / ISBN 13: 9780710086457

Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978

About this Item

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:0710086458.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Basic Writings: From Being and Time (1927) to The Task of Thinking (1964)
• Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul
• Publication Date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0710086458
• ISBN 13: 9780710086457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Poor
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

About this title

Synopsis

Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. Basic Writings offers a full range of this profound and controversial thinker’s writings in one volume, including:

• The Origin of the Work of Art
• The introduction to Being and Time
• What Is Metaphysics?
• Letter on Humanism
• The Question Concerning Technology
• The Way to Language
• The End of Philosophy

Featuring a foreword by Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman, this essential collection provides readers with a concise introduction to the groundbreaking philosophy of this brilliant and essential thinker.

About the Author

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was born in Germany and taught philosophy at the Universities of Freiburg and Marburg. His work helped launched the radical philosophical movement known as phenomenology, whose most famous expositors include Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida.