Table of Contents

Translator's Foreword
Editor's Preface
Introduction by Günter Figal
1. The Environmental Experience
2. Indication of the Hermeneutical Situation
3. The Problem of Being and Time
4. Transcendence
5. Description of the Situation: Fundamental Attunement
6. The Projection of Being in Science and Art
7. Rectorship Address: The Self-Assertion of the German University
8. Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry
9. On the Origin of the Work of Art: First Version
10. "As When on a Holiday..."
11. Ereignis
12. On Ernst Jünger (1)
13. On Ernst Jünger (2)
14. The Age of the World Picture
15. On Nietzsche
16. Logos and Language
17. Bremen Lectures: Insight into That Which Is
18. The Principle of Identity
19. The Language of Johann Peter Hebel
20. Letter to Father William J. Richardson
21. Art and Space
22. Cézanne
Supplements
1. Der Spiegel Interview with Martin Heidegger
2. Chronology of Heidegger's Life
3. Sources for the Present Volume
4. The Heidegger Gesamtausgabe and English Translations

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About the Author

Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany. He is the author of several books on Gadamer, Heidegger, hermeneutics, and social and political philosophy.

Jerome Veith is completing his doctorate in philosophy at Boston College.

Reviews

"An excellent synopsis of Heidegger's philosophical writing and exemplary in its translation of Heidegger's German into clear, readable English." Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado, Denver