Table of Contents

• Preface to the English Edition
• Introduction
• 1. The “Facticity of Life”
• Phenomenology and Hermeneutics.
• The “Primordial Christian Facticity of Life”
• Inceptions: Plato and Aristotle
• 2. The “Meaning of Being”
• The Analytic of “Dasein” or Existence as “Being-Toward-Death”
• The “Ontological Difference”
• The “Historicity” of “Dasein”
• 3. The “History of Being”
• Hitler and the “Other Inception”
• “Hölderlin and the Germans”
• Philosophy and Anti-Semitism
• On the Structure of the “Event of Appropriation”
• Art and the “Struggle between World and Earth”
• “Overcoming Metaphysics”
• Language as the “House of Being”
• God and “The Gods”
• 4. The “Essence of Technology”
• Friedrich Nietzsche and Ernst Jünger
• “Machination” and “Positionality”
• Arrival in the “Fourfold”?
• Reverberations
• Biographical Facts in Historical Context
• Bibliography for Further Study
• Notes
• Index

About the Author

Peter Trawny is Director of the Martin Heidegger Institute at the University of Wuppertal and editor of Heidegger’s complete works.

Reviews

“Focusing on Heidegger’s ‘metapolitical’ texts from the 1930s, Trawny exposes the good, the bad, and the ugly of Heidegger’s middle period, and especially his tortured efforts to conjugate ‘the end of metaphysics’ with his commitment to Hitler and Nazism. Trawny emphasizes what still remains valuable in Heidegger’s reflections on art, language, Ereignis, and poetry, even as he ruthlessly dissects the supinely stupid ‘metaphysical anti-Semitism’ of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks.” Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University