Re-Introducing Heidegger

Abstract

Heidegger is so well known that another introduction might seem to be superfluous. The author has dared it nonetheless because approaching Heidegger from his work on language offers us a different perspective – and, what the writer believes, is a more nuanced appreciation of this landmark in contemporary philosophy.
 The kehre has been exaggerated, to the author’s mind, and while the author does acknowledge that there is room for distinguishing between an earlier and a later Heidegger, he has been more keen about the continuity in Heidegger’s thought.
 References
 Martin Heidegger, On the Way to Language, Peter D. Hertz, trans HarperSan Francisco, 1982
 ________________, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Albert Hofstadter, trans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982
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 __________________, Being and Time, Macquarrie and Robinson, trans. New York: Harper and Row, 1962
 __________________, Introduction to Metaphysics, James Manheim, trans New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984
 ___________________, Time and Being, Joan Stambaugh, trans. New York: Harper and Row, 1972
 __________________, What is Called Thinking? J. Glenn Gray, trans New York: Perennial Library, 1968
 __________________, “Only a God Can Save Us; The Spiegel Interview (1966) in Der Spiegel No. 23 (1976), 193 – 219, online edition at www.ditext.com/heidegger/inteview.html