Many people consider Martin Heidegger the most important German philosopher of the twentieth century. He is indisputably controversial and influential. Athough much has been written about Heidegger, this may be the best single volume covering his life, career, and thought. For all its breadth and complexity, Heideggeras perspective is quite simple: he is concerned with the meaning of Being as disclosure. Heideggeras life was almost as simple. He was a German professor, except for a brief but significant period in which he supported the Nazi regime. While that departure from philosophy continues to haunt his name and work, one must question whether his thought from 1912 to 1976 should be measured by the yardstick of his politics from May, 1933, through February, 1934. Th is anthology addresses his complex but simple thought and his simple but complex life. In a real sense, Sheehan claims, there is no content to Heideggeras topic and legacy, only a method. But method must not be taken to mean a technique or procedure for philosophical thinking. Rather, the topic of Heideggeras thought and his pursuit of that topic, the "what" and the "how," are one and the same thing. Heidegger writes, "Alles ist Weg," "Everything is way," and manas Being is to be on-the-way in essential movement. Heidegger, argues in our essence we humans are the topic and the point is not to be led there so much as to come to know what we already know and to become what we already are. This brilliant collection confirms this truism, and is an excellent introduction to the work of this seminal thinker.

Product Description: This short fiction collection by storytelling master Thomas Sheehan explores the human condition from soaring heights to depraved depths and everything else in between. If John Donne had not penned his line “any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind”, Thomas Sheehan certainly would have...read more

Product Description: In the decades since Martin Heidegger's death, many of his early writings--notes and talks, essays and reviews--have made it into print, but in such scattershot fashion and erratic translation as to mitigate their usefulness for understanding the development, direction, and ultimate shape of his work...read more

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Product Description: Thomas Sheehan and Richard E. Palmer The materials translated in the body of this volume date from 1927 through 1931. The Encyclopaedia Britannica Article and the Amsterdam Lectures were written by Edmund Hussed (with a short contribution by Martin Heideg­ ger) between September 1927 and April 1928, and Hussed's marginal notes to Sein und Zeit and Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik were made between 1927 and 1929...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Presents what is known about the actual life of Jesus, and traces the progress of the Church's interpretation of his life and work

Product Description: Karl Rahner was a German Jesuit Priest and theologian who is considered one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th century. He was born March 5, 1904 and died March 30, 1984.