| Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected Problems of Logic Contributor(s): Heidegger, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253326850 ISBN-13: 9780253326850 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1994 Annotation: First published in German in 1984 as volume 45 of Martin Heidegger's collected works, this book 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 philosophy as the disposition of wonder. In addition, these lectures were presented at the time that Heidegger was composing his second magnum opus, Beitrage zur Philosophie, and provide the single best introduction to that complex and crucial text. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Metaphysics - Philosophy | Logic - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology |
| Dewey: 111.8 |
| LCCN: 93030513 |
| Series: Studies in Continental Thought |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.69" W x 8.47" (0.88 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in German in 1984 as volume 45 of Martin Heidegger's collected works, this book is the first English translation of a lecture course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1937-1938. Heidegger's task here is to reassert 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 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 philosophy 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. |