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This page lists books I have sitting on my shelves. For a more complete list of English translations visit HyperJeff's Quick reference guide to the English translations of Heidegger.
Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta 1-3 On the Essence and Actuality of Force (GA33). Translated by Walter Brogan and Peter Warnek, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1995.
This is a lecture course, "Interpretations of Ancient
Philosophy", presented at the University of Feiburg during
summer semester 1931. Heidegger translates Metaphysik Theta 1-3,
Aristotle's thoughts on the question of being.
Basic Concepts (GA51). Translated by Gary Aylesworth, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1993.
'Basic Concepts, one of the first texts to appear in English from the critical later period of Martin Heidegger's thought, strikes out in new directions. First published in German in 1981 as Grundbegriffe (volume 51 pf Martin Heidgger's collected works), it is the text of a lecture course that Heidegger gave at Freiburg in the winter semester of 1941 during the phase of his thinking known as the "turning." In this transition Heidegger shifted his attention from the problem of the meaning of being to the question of the truth of being.
'The text consists of an introduction and two parts. In the introduction Heidegger explains the meaning of his titles as "concepts of ground." Part One, divided into three sections, attempts to thematize the difference between beings and beings. The first section takes up the metaphysical, logical, grammatical, and everyone meanings of the verb "to be" and shows their inadequacy. The second section, a strikingly original discussion, examines a series of eight directives for reflecting on being.
'The third section shifts from being toward man and points to
the discord between the two. In Part Two, Heidegger interprets
two fragments by Anaximander to recover an "incipient saying
of Being" that is poetic rather than metaphysical. In this
clear translation by Gary E, Aylesworth, Basic Concepts
provides a concise introduction to Heidegger's later thought.'
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Basic Questions of Philosophy. Selected "Problems" of "Logic" (GA45). Translated by Richard Rojcewicz and Andre Schuwer, Indiana University Press, 1994.
'First published in German in 1984 as volume 45 of Martin
Heidegger's collected works, this books translates a lecture
course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1937-1938.
Heidegger here raises the question of the essence of truth, not
as a "problem" or as a matter of "logic", but
precisely as a genuine philosophical question, in fact the one
basic question of philosophy. Thus, this course is about the
intertwining of the essence of truth and the essence of
philosophy. On both sides Heidegger draws extensively upon the
ancient greeks, on their understanding of truth as aletheia
and their determination of the beginning of philosphy as the
disposition of wonder. In addition, these lectures were presented
at the time that Heidegger was composing his second magnum opus, Beiträge
zur Philosophie, and provide the single best introduction to
that complex and crucial text.'
Basic Problems of Phenomenology (GA24). Translated by Albert Hofstadter, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1982.
This is a lecture course presented at the University of
Marburg during summer semester 1927. Heidegger looks at the
philosophical history of ontology, with an emphasis on Kant in
the first half, and then examines time as temporality and its
relation to being. The material covered was intended for, the
never published, division 3 of part 1, and part 2 of Being and
Time.
Basic Writings. Edited by David F. Krell, New York, Harper & Row, 1977, 1993.
Contains:
" Being and Time: Introduction
", translated by Joan Stambaugh, with J. Glenn Gray and
Krell;
"What Is Metaphysics?",
translated by Krell, earlier translation in Existence and Being;
"On the Essence of Truth"
(GA34), translated by
John
Sallis, earlier translation in Existence
and Being;
"The Origin of the Work of
Art", also in Poetry, Language, Thought;
"Letter on Humanism"
translated by Frank A. Capuzzi with Gray;
"Modern Science, Metaphysics, and Mathematics", from What Is a Thing?;
"The Question
Concerning Technology", from The Question Concerning
Technology and Other Essays;
"Building Dwelling
Thinking", also in Poetry, Language, Thought;
"What Calls for Thinking?", translated by Fred D. Wieck
and Gray;
"The Way to Language" translated by Krell, earlier
translation in On the Way to
Language;
"The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking", from On Time and Being.
This book is the best introduction to Heidegger's works. It
collects some of Heidegger's key essays with Krell's helpful
introduction. One caveat is that there's more to Heidegger than
can be collected in one book. Readers looking for a particular
facet of Heidegger's thought may find that it is not addressed
here. Heidegger's own writings may not be everyone's best
introduction to his thought.
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Being and Time (GA2). Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, New York, Harper & Row, 1962.
The original English translation of Heidegger's most famous work.
Hardback
Being and Time (GA2). Translated by Joan Stambaugh,
Albany, State University of New York Press, 1996.
The new translation.
Table of Contents
Hardback
; Paperback
The Concept of Time.
Translated by William McNeill, Oxford, Blackwell, 1992.
Contributions to Philosophy : (From Enowning). (GA65). Translated by Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1999.
'With the publication of Contributons to Philosophy (From Enowing), Martin Heidegger's most important work after Being and Time becomes available in ENglish for the first time. Titled in German Beiträge zur Philosophie, this work, written in 1936-38, was awaited with great expectation long before its publication on the centennial of Heidegger's birth in 1989. In Heidegger's corpus, Contributions undertakes thing less than to reshape the very project of thinking. Through Heidegger's unfolding of "being-historical thinking," thinking becomes a dimension of time and space, a way of experiencing the presence of the divine.
'The fugally structured work comprises six "joinings"--"Echo," "Playing-Forth," "Leap," "Grounding," "The Ones to Come," and "The Last God"--and a final section "Be-ing," which together illuminate what enowns and thus enables thinking.
'The appearance of this carefully crafted translation by Parvis Emad and
Kenneth Maly is a significant event for Heidegger studies and a landmark for
twentieth-century philosophy.'
Reviews: Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
Companion to Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy. Edited by Charles E. Scott, Susan Schoenbohm, Daniela Vallega-Neu, and Alejandro Vallega, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2001.
Introduction: Approaching Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy and Its Companion,
Charles E. Scott
Part 1. Approaches
1. Reading Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy: An Orientation,
Susan M. Schoenbohm
2. Strategies for a Possible Reading,
Dennis J. Schmidt
3. "Beyng-Historical Thinking" in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy,
Alejandro Vallega
4. Poietic Saying,
Daniela Vallega-Neu
5. The Event of Enthinking the Event,
Richard Polt
6. Contributions to Philosophy and Enowning-Historical Thinking,
Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann
Part 2. Readings
7. The Time of Contributions to Philosophy,
William McNeill
8. Turnings in Essential Swaying and the Leap,
Kenneth Maly
9. Da-sein and the Leap of Being,
Walter A. Brogan
10. Grounders of the Abyss,
John Sallis
11. Forgetfulness of God: Concerning the Center of Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy,
Günter Figal
12. The Last God,
David Crownfield
13. On "Be-ing": The Last Part of Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning),
Parvis Emad
Discourse On Thinking. Translated by John M. Anderson and E. Hans Freund, New York, Harper & Row, 1966.
Contains:
"Memorial Address" (AKA Gelassenheit);
"Conversation on a Country Path About Thinking".
Early Greek Thinking. Translated by David F. Krell and Frank A. Capuzzi, New York, Harper & Row, 1975.
Contains:
"The Anaximander Fragment" (GA5);
"Logos (Heraclitus, Fragment B 50)"
(GA7);
"Moira (Parmenides VIII, 34-41)" (GA7);
"Aletheia (Heraclitus, Fragment B 16)"
(GA7).
Elucidations of Hölderlin's Poetry (GA4). Translated and introduction by Keith Hoeller, Amherst, New York, Humanity Books, 2000.
Contains:
"Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry",
"Hölderlin's Earth and Heaven",
"The Poem".
The End of Philosophy. Translated and introduction by Joan Stambaugh, New York, Harper and Row, 1973.
Contains:
"Metaphysics as History of Being",
"Sketches for a History of Being as Metaphysics",
"Recollections in Metaphysics",
"Overcoming Metaphysics"
(GA7).
Essays in Metaphysics: Identity and Difference. Translated by Kurt F. Leidecker, New York, Philosophical Library Inc., 1960.
Contains:
"The Principle of Identity",
"The Onto-theo-logical
Nature of Metaphysics".
The Essence of Human Freedom (GA31). Translated by Ted Sadler, London, Continuum, 2002.
In this course, presented at the University of Feiburg during
winter semester 1930, Heidegger addresses first the meaning of being in
Aristotle's Metaphysics, and then uses that as a basis to study
freedom and causality in Kant's Critiques.
The Essence of Truth (GA34). Translated by Ted Sadler, London, Continuum, 2002.
This course, presented at the University of Feiburg during
summer semester 1931-32, covers both an exploration of truth as unhiddeness
via a close reading of the Allegory of the Cave from Plato's Republic, and
a reading of the discussion of knowledge in the middle of Plato's Theaetetus.
Existence and Being. Introduction and Analysis by Werner Brock, Washington, D.C., Regnery Gateway Company, 1949.
Contains:
"Remembrance of the Poet",
Translated by Douglas Scott;
"Hölderlin and the
Essence of Poetry", Translated by Douglas Scott;
"On the Essence of Truth", Translated by R. F. C. Hull
and Alan Crick, also translated by
Sallis;
"What is Metaphysics?", Translated by R. F. C. Hull and
Alan Crick, also translated by Krell.
The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics World, Finitude, Solitude (GA29/30). Translated by William McNeill and Nicholas Walker, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1995.
'This book, 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 earlt 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 presents an extended treatment of the history of metaphysics and an elaboration of a philosophy of life and nature. Heidegger's concepts of organism, animal behaviour, and environment are uniquely developed and defined with intensity. Of major interest is Heidegger's brilliant phenomenological description of the mood of boredom, which he describes as a "fundamental attunement" of modern times.'
Heidegger spends some time explaining the essence of
philosophy, and looking into the origin of the word Metaphysics.
He then analyzes boredom as a mood, using it to examine Dasien,
much like he uses anxiety in Being and Time. Finally he examines
animals in the world and the notion that 'Man is World-forming'.
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Hegel's Phenomenology
of Spirit (GA32). Translated
by Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly, Bloomington, Indiana University
Press, 1988.
Hardcover
; Paperback
Heraclitus Seminar.
With Eugene Fink. Translated by Charles H. Seibert, Evanston,
Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 1993.
History of the Concept of Time (GA20). Translated by Theodore Kisiel, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1985.
This book is the lectures from a course Heidegger taught at
the University of Marburg during the summer semester of 1925. In
the first part Heidegger critiques Husserl's phenomenology, then
he presents what is essentially Being and Time Division I
and a bit of Division II.
Table of Contents
Hardcover;
Paperback
Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister" (GA53). Translated by William McNeill and Julia Davis, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1996.
This is a lecture course presented at the University of Freiburg
during summer semester 1942. The course is split into three parts.
First Heidegger looks for metaphysics in "The Ister",
then he examines a part of Sophocles' Antigone he had used,
more breifly, in a 1935 course, Introduction to Metaphysics.
Finally he examines more of "The Ister". Hölderlin's
poems have been translated especially for this book, to help
understand Heidegger's interpretation of the German.
Identity and Difference.
Translated by Joan Stambaugh, New York, Harper & Row, 1969.
Contains:
"The Principle of Identity"
"The Onto-theo-logical
Constitution of Metaphysics"
An Introduction
to Metaphysics (GA40).
Translated by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt, New Haven, Conn., Yale University
Press, 2000.
An Introduction to Metaphysics Fourth Edition (GA40).
Translated by James Manheim, New Haven, Conn., Yale University
Press, 1984.
A Companion to Heidegger's Introduction
to Metaphysics.
Edited by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt, New Haven, Conn., Yale University
Press, 2001.
Contains:
Kehre and Ereignis: A Prolegomenon to Introduction to Metaphysics, Thomas Sheehan;
The Appearance of Metaphysics, Charles E. Scott;
Being as Appearing: Retrieving the Greek Experience of Phusis, Charles Guignon;
The Question of Nothing, Richard Polt;
The Scattered Logos: Metaphysics and the Logical Prejudice, Daniel Dahlstrom;
The Name on the Edge of Language: A Complication in Heidegger's Theory of Language and Its Consequences, Dieter Thomä;
What's in a Word? Heidegger's Grammar and Etymology of "Being", Gregory Fried;
Heidegger's Interpretation of Phusis in Introduction to Metaphysics, Susan Schoenbohm;
Heidegger's Antigones, Clare Pearson Geiman;
The Ontological Decline of the West, Michael E. Zimmerman;
"Conflict Is the Father of All Things": Heidegger's Polemical Conception of Politics, Hans Sluga;
Heidegger's Philosophical Geopolitics in the Third Reich, Theodore Kisiel;
At the Crossroads of Freedom: Ethics Without Values, Frank Schalow.
Kant and the Problem of
Metaphysics (GA3). Translated
by Richard Taft, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1997.
Hardcover;
Paperback
The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic (GA26). Translated by Michael Heim, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1984.
This is a lecture course, Logik, presented at the
University of Marburg during summer semester 1928. In the first
part of this course Heidegger examines Leibniz's Doctrine of
Judgement. In the second he studies the Principle of Reason.
Hardcover
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Nietzsche I: The Will to Power as Art. Edited and Translated by David F. Krell, New York, Harper & Row, 1979.
Contains:
"The Will to Power as Art" (GA43).
Nietzsche II: The Eternal Recurrence of the Same. Edited and Translated by David F. Krell, New York, Harper & Row, 1984.
Contains:
"The Eternal Recurrence of the Same" (GA44).
"Who Is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?" (GA7).
Nietzsche
I & II
Nietzsche III: The Will to Power as Knowledge and Metaphysics. Edited by David F. Krell, translated by Joan Stambaugh, New York, Harper & Row, 1987.
Contains:
"The Will to Power as Knowledge" (GA47);
"The Eternal Recurrence of the Same and the Will to Power" (GA6);
"Nietzsche's Metaphysics" (GA6).
Nietzsche IV: Nihilism. Edited by David F. Krell, translated by Frank A. Capuzzi, New York, Harper & Row, 1982.
Contains:
"European Nihilism" (GA6);
"Nihilism as Determined by the History of Being" (GA6).
Nietzsche
III & IV
On the Way to Language (GA12). Translated by Peter D. Hertz, NewYork, Harper & Row, 1971.
Contains:
"A Dialogue on Language";
"The Nature of Language";
"The Way to Language";
"Word", translated by Joan Stambaugh;
"Language in the Poem".
On Time and Being (GA14). Translated by Joan Stambaugh, NewYork, Harper & Row, 1972.
Contains:
"Time and Being";
"The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking";
"My Way to Phenomenology".
Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity (GA63). Translated by John va Buren, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1999.
'First published in 1988 as volume 63 of Heidegger's Collected
Works, Ontology follows Heidegger's lectures at the University of
Freiburg during the summer semester of 1923. In these lectures,
Heidegger reviews and makes critical appropriation of the
hermeneutical tradition from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to
Schleiermacher and Dilthey. Other important themes that are taken
up are his turn to the facticity and everyday world of Dasein,
his interpretation of human existence in the present historically
and philosophically, his understanding of phenomenology, and his
repeated insistence on the temporal dimension of interpretation
and significance. Students of Heidegger's thought will find
initial breakthroughs in his unique elaboration of the meaning of
human existence and "question of Being," which received
mature expression in Being and Time.'
Parmenides (GA54). Translated by Andre Schuwer and Richard Rojcewicz, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1992.
'This is a lecture course, Parmenides and Heraclitus, presented
at the University of Freiburg during winter semester 1942-1943.
Heidegger examines Parmenides's poem and the question of truth.'
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Pathmarks (GA9). Edited by William McNeill, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Contains:
"Editor's Preface";
"Preface to the German Edition";
"Comments on Karl Jaspers' Psychology of Worldviews (1919/21)";
"Phenomenology and Theology (1927)";
"From the Last Marburg Lecture Course (1928)";
"What is Metaphysics? (1929)";
"On the Essence of Ground (1929)";
"On the Essence of Truth (1930)";
"Plato's Doctrine of Truth (1931/32, 1940)";
"On the Essence and Concept in Aristotle's Physics B, 1 (1939)";
"Postscript to 'What is Metaphysics?' (1943)";
"Letter on Humanism (1946)";
"Introduction to "What is Metaphysics?" (1949)";
"On the Question of Being (1955)";
"Hegel and the Greeks (1958)";
"Kant's Thesis About Being (1961)";
"Notes";
"References";
"Editor's Postscript to the German Edition"
'This is the first time that a seminal collection of fourteen essays by Martin Heidegger (originally published in German under the title Wegmarken) has appeared in English in its complete form. The volume includes new or first-time translations of seven essays, and thoroughly revised, updated versions of the other seven. They will prove an essential resource for all students of Heidegger, whether they work in philosophy, literary theory, religious studies or intellectual history.'
Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle Initiation into Phenomenological Research (GA61). Translated by Richard Rojcewicz, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2001.
'Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle, the text of a lecture course
presented at the University of Freiburg in the winter of 192122, was first
published in 1985 as volume 61 of Heidegger's collected works. Preceding
Being and Time, the work shows Heidegger introducing novel vocabulary as he
searches for his genuine philosophical voice. Here, Heidegger first takes up
the role of the definition of philosophy and then elaborates a conception of
"factical life," or human life as it is lived concretely in relation to the
world, a relation he calls "caring." Heidegger's descriptions of the movement
of life are original, striking, and unique to this lecture course. As he works
out a phenomenology of factical life, Heidegger lays the groundwork for a
phenomenological interpretation of Aristotle, one of the pivotal influences
in the development of his philosophy.'
Phenomenological
Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
(GA25). Translated by Parvis
Emad and Kenneth Maly, Bloomington, Indiana University Press,
1997.
Plato's Sophist (GA19). Translated by Richard Rojcewicz and Andre Schuwer, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1997.
'This volume reconstructs Martin Heidegger's lecture course at
the University of Marburg in the winter semester of 1924-25,
which was devoted to an interpretation of Plato and Aristotle.
Published for the first time in German in 1992 as volume 19 of
Heidegger's Collected Works, it is a major text not only because
of its intrinsic importance as an interpretation of the Greek
thinkers, but also because of its close, complementary
relationship to Being and Time, composed in the period. In
Plato's Sophist, Heidegger approaches Plato through
Aristotle, devoting the first part of the lectures to an extended
commentary on Book VI of the Nichomachean Ethics. In a
line-by-line interpretation of Plato's later dialogue, the Sophist,
Heidegger takes up the relation of Being and non-being, the
ontological problematic that forms the essential link between
Greek philosophy and Heidegger's thought.'
Poetry, Language, Thought. Translated by Albert Hofstadter, New York, Harper & Row, 1971.
Contains:
"The Thinker as Poet" (GA13);
"The Origin of the Work of Art";
"What Are Poets For?";
"Building Dwelling
Thinking" (GA7); also in Basic Writings;
"The Thing" (GA7);
"Language" (GA7);
"...Poetically Man Dwells..."
(GA12).
The Principle of Reason. Translated by Reginald Lilly, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1991.
'The Principle of Reason, the text of a lecture course that Martin Heidegger have in 1955-56, takes as its focal point Leibniz's principle: nothing is without reason. Heidegger shows here that the principle of reason is in fact a principle of being. Much of his discussion is aimed at bringing his readers to the "leap of thinking," which enables them to grasp the principle of reason as a principle of being.
'The Principle of Reason presents Heidegger's most extensive reflection on the notion of history and its essence, the Geschick of being, which is considered one of the most important developments in Heidegger's later thought. One of Heidegger's most artfully composed texts, it also contains important discussions of language, translation, reason, objectivity, and technology as well as of such figures as Leibniz, Kant, and Aristotle.'
This is a lecture course, Der Satz vom Grund, presented
at the University of Freiburg, and an address he delivered in
1956 entitled Der Satz vom Grund.
The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays. Translated by William Lovitt, NewYork, Harper & Row, 1977.
Contains:
"The Question
Concerning Technology";
"The Turning";
"The Word of Nietzsche: 'God Is Dead'";
"The Age of the World Picture";
"Science and Reflection".
The Question of Being (GA41). Translated by Jean T. Wilde and
William Kluback, Albany, New York, New College University Press,
1958.
Schelling's Treatise on the
Essence of Human Freedom. (GA42).
Translated by Joan Stambaugh, Athens, Ohio University Press, 1984.
Supplements From the Earliest Essays to Being and Time and Beyond.. Edited by John van Buren, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2002.
Contains:
"Chronological Overview: Education, Teaching, Research and Publication";
"Per Mortem ad Vitam: Thoughts on Johannes Jörgensen's Lies of Life and Truth of Life (1910)";
"The Problem of Reality in Modern Philosophy (1912)";
"The Concept of Time in the Science of History (1915)";
"The Theory of Categories and Meaning in Duns Scotus--Author’s Book Notice (1917)".
"Conclusion: The Problem of Categories (1916)";
"Letter to Father Engelbert Krebs (1919)";
"Comments on Karl Jaspers' Psychology of Worldviews (1920)";
"The Problem of Sin in Luther (1924)";
"Phenomenological Interpretations in Connection with Aristotle: An Indication of the Hermeneutical Situation (1922)";
"Wilhelm Dilthey's Research and the Struggle for a Historical Worldview (1925)";
Towards the Definition of Philosophy (GA56/57). Translated by Ted Sadler, London, Continuum, 2002.
This volume brings together the two lecture courses of 1918--
The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview, and
Phenomenology and Transcendental Philosophy Value--as well as the lecture,
On the Nature of the University and Academic Study.
What Is A Thing? (GA41). Translated by W. B. Barton, Jr. and Vera Deutsch,Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1967.
What Is Called Thinking? (GA8). Translated by J. Glenn Gray, New York, Harper & Row, 1968.
Lectures delivered at the University of Freiburg during the
winter and summer semesters of 1951-2.
What Is Philosophy?
Translated by Jean T. Wilde and William Kluback, New Haven,
College and University Press, 1968.
Zollikon Seminars
Edited by Medard Boss
Translated by Franz K. Mayr and Richard R. Askay, Evanston,
Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 2001.
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