Basic writings - Nine Key Essays, plus the Introduction to Being and Time

Martin Heidegger

ISBN 10: 006063846X / ISBN 13: 9780060638467

Published by Harper & Row, Publishers (NY), 1977

About this Item

First printing hardcover in jacket, 397 pages, book is solid and square. Mild wear to the cloth binding and pages - age-toning to pages. There is foxing (spotting) to outer page edges mostly at top and side. Jacket has some rubbing, light scratching, wear along edges with just a few very tiny chips/tears. Very good. k2.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1784502572094

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Basic writings - Nine Key Essays, plus the Introduction to Being and Time
• Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers (NY)
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006063846X
• ISBN 13: 9780060638467
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 566.99 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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.

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

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.