The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude (Studies in Continental Thought)

The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude (Studies in Continental Thought)

by Martin Heidegger (Author), WilliamH.McNeill (Translator), NicholasWalker (Translator)

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Now in paperback!

.. an important addition to the translations of Heidegger's lecture-courses.. Heidegger's voice can be heard with few of the jolting Germanicisms with which so many translations of Heidegger's texts have been burdened.... -International Philosophical Quarterly

The translators of these lectures have succeeded splendidly in giving readers an intimation of the tensely insistent tone of the original German. Heidegger's concern with a linguistic preconsciousness and with our entrancement before the enigma of existence remains intensely contemporary. -Choice

There is much that is new and valuable in this book, and McNeill and Walker's faithful translation makes it very accessible. -Review of Metaphysics

Whoever thought that Heidegger... has no surprises left in him had better read this volume. If its rhetoric is 'hard and heavy' its thought is even harder and essentially more daring than Heideggerians ever imagined Heidegger could be. -David Farrell Krell

First published in German in 1938 as volume 29/30 of Heidegger's collected works, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics includes 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.

This work, 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 includes 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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 01 May 2001

ISBN 10: 0253214297
ISBN 13: 9780253214294
Book Overview: A crucial work for understanding a major turning point in Heidegger's thought.

Media Reviews
This authoritative translation is essential to any Heidegger collection. * Choice *
Whoever thought that Heidegger . . . has no surprises left in him had better read this new volume. If its rhetoric is hard and heavy its thought is even harder and essentially more daring than Heideggerians ever imagined Heidegger could be. -- David Farrell Krell * DePaul University *
In this text, which is crucial to understanding the transition from Heidegger's earlier to his later thinking, readers will find a helpful overview of Heidegger's conception of metaphysics . . . a brilliant phenomenological analysis of boredom . . . an investigation of the essence of life and animality . . . and an analysis of the structure of the propositional statement . . . * Review of Metaphysics *
Author Bio

William McNeill is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is co-translator (with Julia Davis) of Hoelderlin's Hymn The Ister by Martin Heidegger.


Nicholas Walker is Research Fellow in philosophy and literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge.