Heidegger and His Anglo-american Reception: A Comprehensive Approach

This book presents both a historical overview of the absorption of Heidegger’s thought into English-language philosophical schools as well as a philosophical discussion of his thought provided by contemporary scholars. The text describes the ways in which a philosophical methodology and worldview seemingly so inhospitable to Anglophone academia has managed to find an unlikely home.

This volume is roughly divided into two types of contributions: discussions of Heidegger’s reception in the English-speaking world, and outstanding examples of English-language Heidegger scholarship. The first type includes both historiographical accounts of the encounters between Heidegger’s thought and the Anglo-American world, as well as their philosophical expositions and critiques. The second group of chapters reveal the latest contemporary scholarship by contemporary Heideggerians writing in English. It is moreover the first volume to bring together thinkers from both genealogies of Anglo-American Heideggerianism appealing to students and researchers working in both of these camps.

John Rogove, former pensionnaire of the Ecole normale supérieure, holds an M.Phil and a Ph.D. from the Université Paris-Sorbonne. He is an Associate Research Fellow at the Paris Husserl Archives and teaches philosophy at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, the Institut catholique de Paris and Sciences po. He specializes in phenomenology, in philosophy of language and mind, in political philosophy, and in philosophy of religion. He holds a B.A. in Classics from NYU and an M.A in philosophy from Boston College, where he studied under William Richardson and John Sallis.

Pietro D’Oriano studied in Paris, in particular under the tutelage of Roland Barthes (EPHE), where he obtained a B.A. and an M.A. at the Université Paris XII. He was a post-graduate student at UCL, UK. He taught Ancient philosophy in Florence and Philosophy of Language and Aesthetics at La Sapienza, Rome. He was an Associate Researcher at the Archives Husserl de Paris (under J-F. Courtine and J. Benoist). He is currently writing a book in French on Frege and Heidegger (on whom he has published two books in Italian), of which his contribution to the present volume is a part.