Appropriating Heidegger


  • Edited by James E. Faulconer
    Brigham Young University, Utah

    Edited by Mark A. Wrathall
    Brigham Young University, Utah

  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

    Print Publication Year:2000

    Online Publication Date:September 2009

    Online ISBN:9780511487583

    Hardback ISBN:9780521781817

    Paperback ISBN:9780521070447

  • Book DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487583

    Subjects: Philosophy: general interest

Although Martin Heidegger is undeniably one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, among the philosophers who study his work there is considerable disagreement over what might seem to be basic issues: Why is Heidegger important? What did his work do? This volume is an explicit response to these differences, and is unique in bringing together representatives of many different approaches to Heidegger's philosophy. The essays discuss topics that are central to Heidegger's work, and the contributors also address the presuppositions that guide their understanding of Heidegger.