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The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude

By Martin Heidegger , William McNeill (Translator) , Nicholas Walker (Translator)

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0253214297, 9780253214294, 0253327490, 9780253327499
LCC
B3279.H48 G76513 1995
Google Books ID
ZYU9tyb4K2wC
Open Library ID
OL1117303M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5047604 bytes)
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Pages
400\400
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This book, the text of Martin Heidegger's lecture course of 1929/30, is crucial for an understanding of Heidegger's transition from the major work of his early years, Being and Time, to his later preoccupations with language, truth, and history. First published in German in 1983 as volume 29/30 of Heidegger's collected works, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics presents an extended treatment of the history of metaphysics and an elaboration of a philosophy of life and nature. Heidegger's concepts of organism, animal behavior, and environment are uniquely developed and defined with intensity. Of major interest is Heidegger's brilliant phenomenological description of the mood of boredome, which he describes as a "fundamental attunement" of modern times.

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