Part I. Truth and Disclosure: 1. Unconcealment; 2. The conditions of truth in Heidegger and Davidson; 3. On the 'existential positivity of our ability to be deceived'; 4. Heidegger on Plato, truth, and unconcealment: the 1931–2 lecture on The Essence of Truth; Part II. Language: 5. Social constraints on conversational content: Heidegger on Rede and Gerede; 6. Conversation, language, saying and showing; 7. The revealed word and world disclosure: Heidegger and Pascal on the phenomenology of religious faith; Part III. Historical Worlds: 8. Philosophers, thinkers, and Heidegger's place in the history of being; 9. Between the earth and the sky: Heidegger on life after the death of God; 10. Nietzsche and the metaphysics of truth.
Examines the notion of unconcealment in Heidegger's works, a concept central to his philosophy of truth, language and history.
Mark A. Wrathall received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of How to Read Heidegger (2005) and the editor of numerous collections, including A Companion to Heidegger (2005), Religion after Metaphysics (2003) and A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (2006).
'No one today writes about Heidegger - especially the later
Heidegger - with greater clarity and depth than Mark Wrathall. In
this superb collection of essays he has set the philosophical
standard for anyone wishing to confront and take seriously
Heidegger's accounts of truth, language, and history.' Taylor
Carman, Barnard College
'Heidegger and Unconcealment covers the whole span of Heidegger's
work and is a major contribution to the rapidly expanding
literature on Heidegger. It is distinguished both by Wrathall's
amazing grasp of Heidegger's still-growing collected works -
comprising more than 50 volumes, many of which have not yet been
translated - and by his wide-ranging, original, and illuminating
discussion of the relation of Heidegger's thought to that of other
contemporary thinkers. Wrathall's ability to put Heidegger's
abstruse formulations into clear, jargon-free English without
losing their subtlety makes this book a perfect way for interested
analytic philosophers to enter into Heidegger's world.' Hubert
Dreyfus, University of California, Berkeley
'Mark Wrathall's book offers a sustained, penetrating, and deeply
illuminating account of Heidegger's work, early and late. It
discloses a persistent concern in the deep background of his
thinking that helps bring more clearly into focus the distinctness
of the various phases of its development, and it does so with a
rigor and clarity that will make it much harder to deny Heidegger's
relevance to issues that are of central concern to contemporary
Anglo-American analytic philosophy.' Stephen Mulhall, Oxford
University
'In this unified collection Mark Wrathall gathers Heidegger's works
around the central phenomenon of disclosure, and specifically
around the disclosure of historical formations of meaning. Written
with verve and precision, the book sets a high bar for future
scholarship on Heidegger.' Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
'Wrathall gives a wonderfully clear account of certain key notions
of Heidegger's philosophy, including truth and language. His
exposition is full of illuminating examples and useful comparisons
with analytic philosophers. He offers not only a very valuable
addition to Heidegger commentary in English, but also a number of
interesting original insights into the questions that Heidegger
raises.' Charles Taylor, McGill University
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