An Introduction To Metaphysics
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At the crossroads of language, being, and existence, Martin Heidegger's An Introduction to Metaphysics presents one of the most consequential and challenging works in twentieth-century philosophical thought. Originally delivered as a lecture course at the University of Freiburg in 1935, the text opens with Heidegger's fundamental question — Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? — and from this deceptively simple starting point, constructs a rigorous and far-reaching inquiry into the nature of Being itself. Translated with precision and clarity by Ralph Manheim, this Yale University Press edition makes Heidegger's dense, Germanic philosophical idiom accessible to English-language readers without sacrificing its intellectual depth or rhetorical power. Heidegger's style is nothing short of electrifying: he uncovers the roots of Western metaphysics by returning to the ancient Greeks, arguing that philosophy took a wrong turn with Plato and that modernity has been living in the shadow of that fateful error ever since. The work weaves together etymology, poetry, and ontology, treating language not merely as a tool of thought but as the very house of Being. A cornerstone of existentialist and post-structuralist philosophy alike, this text has shaped the thinking of luminaries from Jean-Paul Sartre to Jacques Derrida — and its central question, still unanswered, continues to reverberate across disciplines and generations. For those willing to sit with uncertainty, An Introduction to Metaphysics is not an answer, but an invitation to think more deeply than ever before.
Author: Martin Heidegger
Format: Paperback
Published: 1987, Yale University Press
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the crossroads of language, being, and existence, Martin Heidegger's An Introduction to Metaphysics presents one of the most consequential and challenging works in twentieth-century philosophical thought. Originally delivered as a lecture course at the University of Freiburg in 1935, the text opens with Heidegger's fundamental question — Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? — and from this deceptively simple starting point, constructs a rigorous and far-reaching inquiry into the nature of Being itself. Translated with precision and clarity by Ralph Manheim, this Yale University Press edition makes Heidegger's dense, Germanic philosophical idiom accessible to English-language readers without sacrificing its intellectual depth or rhetorical power. Heidegger's style is nothing short of electrifying: he uncovers the roots of Western metaphysics by returning to the ancient Greeks, arguing that philosophy took a wrong turn with Plato and that modernity has been living in the shadow of that fateful error ever since. The work weaves together etymology, poetry, and ontology, treating language not merely as a tool of thought but as the very house of Being. A cornerstone of existentialist and post-structuralist philosophy alike, this text has shaped the thinking of luminaries from Jean-Paul Sartre to Jacques Derrida — and its central question, still unanswered, continues to reverberate across disciplines and generations. For those willing to sit with uncertainty, An Introduction to Metaphysics is not an answer, but an invitation to think more deeply than ever before.