Introducing Heidegger: A Graphic Guide
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (654 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1848311745 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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''Jeff Collins has done an admirable job of explicating this profound thinker.'' --John Banville, Irish Times
An accessible and artistic presentation of Heidegger I have spent many afternoons in my adolescence hearing my father talk about Heidegger. He has some learning in the German Language, and actually read "Being and Time." I too have a copy of "Being and Time" which sits on my shelf many times begun and never finished. Still we discuss these ideas, and so through our conversations these ideas seem somewhat familiar. Finally one day he found a copy of this book. He read it, and tells me that rings very true to Heidegger's message. I will have to take his word for it. I feel greatly reli. A Reader from New York A Customer INTRODUCING HEIDEGGER presents the reader with a lucid and thoughtfully rendered overview of Heidegger's overall corpus. However, this book does not represent a profound encounter with H's original texts by any stretch. Rather, it is a handy reference book, refresher, or study guide. The pictures are somewhat evocative and illuminating at times, but the book reminds me -- and this is NOT a slight-- of a well executed Cliff Notes edition. The main virtues of the book include reasonable clarification of terminology, consideration of . Heidegger the Philosopher Coexists With Heidegger The Nazi Jonathan Before purchasing this book, I skimmed the sections on Heidegger's Nazi past. I wanted to make sure that the book confronted the subject directly.It does. There is none of the evasiveness that characterizes, say, Hannah Arendt's essay "Heidegger at 80." Indeed, the author presents information on Heidegger's Nazism of which I was not aware. He correctly situates Heidegger's actions within the context of Heidegger's refusal to repudiate them after the war.There are a few weird spots. Hannah Arendt shows up at the end simply as a crit
Jeff Collins: Jeff Collins is a Lecturer in Art History at the University of Plymouth.Howard Selina: Howard Selina studied painting at St. He has also illustrated Introducing series titles on Evolution and Consciousness.. Martin's School of Art and the Royal Academy in London, where he now lives and works
Was he offering a deeply conservative mythology or a crucial deconstruction of philosophy as we have known it? Introducing Heidegger provides an accessible introduction to his notoriously abstruse thinking, mapping out its historical contexts and exploring its contemporary resonances.. Heidegger announced the end of philosophy and was vocal supporter of Nazism