Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected "Problems" of "Logic" (Studies in Continental Thought)

Martin Heidegger

ISBN 10: 0253326850 / ISBN 13: 9780253326850

Published by Indiana University Press, 1994

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1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected "Problems" of "Logic" (Studies in Continental Thought)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253326850
• ISBN 13: 9780253326850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

First published in German in 1984 as volume 45 of Martin Heidegger's collected works, this book is the first English translation of a lecture course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1937–1938. Heidegger's task here is to reassert the question of the essence of truth, not as a "problem" or as a matter of "logic," but precisely as a genuine philosophical question, in fact the one basic question of philosophy. Thus, this course is about the essence of truth and the essence of philosophy. On both sides Heidegger draws extensively upon the ancient Greeks, on their understanding of truth as aletheia and their determination of the beginning of philosophy as the disposition of wonder. In addition, these lectures were presented at the time that Heidegger was composing his second magnum opus, Beiträge zur Philosophie, and provide the single best introduction to that complex and crucial text.

About the Author

Richard Rojcewicz is Executive Director of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University.

André Schuwer is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Duquesne University and cotranslator (with Richard Rojcewicz) of Parmenides by Martin Heidegger and Ideas II by Edmund Husserl.