Synopses & Reviews
This brand new translation of Martin Heidgger's Mindfulness (Besinnung) makes available in English for the first time Heidegger's second major being-historical treatise. Here Heidegger returns to and elaborates in detail many of the individual dimensions of the historically self-showing and transforming allotments of be-ing. In addition to the main text, this volume also includes two further important texts, A Retrospective Look at the Pathway (1937/8) and 'The Wish and the Will (On Preserving What is Attempted)' (1937/8), in which Heidegger surveys his unpublished works, gives instructions for their eventual publication, talks about his relationship to Catholic and Protestant Christianity, and reflects on his life's path. This is a major new translation of a key text from one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century.This volume is translated by Parvis Emad, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago, and Thomas Kalary, Professor of Philosophy at Suvidya College, Bangalore.
Synopsis
This brand new translation of Martin Heidgger's Mindfulness (Besinnung) makes available in English for the first time Heidegger's second major being-historical treatise. Here Heidegger returns to and elaborates in detail many of the individual dimensions of the historically self-showing and transforming allotments of be-ing. In addition to the main text, this volume also includes two further important texts, A Retrospective Look at the Pathway (1937/8) and 'The Wish and the Will (On Preserving What is Attempted)' (1937/8), in which Heidegger surveys his unpublished works, gives instructions for their eventual publication, talks about his relationship to Catholic and Protestant Christianity, and reflects on his life's path. This is a major new translation of a key text from one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century.This volume is translated by Parvis Emad, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago, and Thomas Kalary, Professor of Philosophy at Suvidya College, Bangalore.
Table of Contents
Translator's Foreword
I. IntroductionII. Leaping Ahead unto the Uniqueness of Be-ingIII. PhilosophyIV. On Projecting-Open Be-ingV. Truth and Knowing AwarenessVI. Be-ingVII. Be-ing and ManVIII. Be-ing and ManIX. AnthropomorphismX. HistoryXI. TechnicityXII. 'History' and TechnicityXIII. Be-ing and PowerXIV. Be-ing and BeingXV. The Thinking of Be-ingXVI. The Forgottenness of Be-ingXVII. The History of Be-ingXVIII. GodsXIX. ErrancyXX. On the History of MetaphysicsXXI. The Metaphysical 'Why-Question'XXII. Be-ing and 'Becoming'XXIII. Being as ActualityXXIV. Be-ing and 'Negativity'XXV. Being and Thinking, Being and TimeXXVI. A Gathering into Being MindfulXXVII. The Be-ing-Historical Thinking and the Question of BeingXXVIII. The Be-ing-Historical Concept of Metaphysics
Appendix I: A Retrospective Look at the PathwayAppendix II: The Wish and the Will
Editor's Epilogue