Heidegger - by J Jeremy Wisnewski (Paperback)

About the Book

Wisnewski provides a concise introduction to Heidegger's work through the lens of his best-known book, Being and Time. This insightful, new text guides students through Heidegger's challenging ideas to help them understand his writings as a whole and his influence on modern thought.

Book Synopsis

Wisnewski provides a concise introduction to Heidegger's work through the lens of his best-known book, Being and Time. This insightful, new text guides students through Heidegger's challenging ideas to help them understand his writings as a whole and his influence on modern thought.

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Remarkably clear, thorough and insightful, Wisnewski's book should be a boon not only for the Heideggerian novices for whom it is written but for old hands as well. Wisnewski is a sure guide through Being and Time and later texts. He is able not only to elucidate them but, in showing just how illuminating they can be, reproduce some of the revelatory excitement Heidegger's contemporaries must have felt.

The beauty of Jeremy Wisnewski's crystal clear and reader-friendly explication of the main ideas in Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, is that it locates these ideas in the context of the entire evolution of Heidegger's thought. The book will be exceedingly valuable to students of Heidegger's work.

This excellent and detailed volume by Wisnewski devotes chapters 2-7 to a very careful and philosophically reliable analysis of Being and Time. Only in chapter 8 does the book turn to the later Heidegger. Throughout the focus is on Being and Time. The book has wonderful sections on secondary works on Being and Time, secondary works on the later Heidegger, collections of Heidegger's essays, works influenced by Heidegger, and lists of Heidegger's writings on ancient philosophy, art, ethics, politics, religion, technology, and truth. Appendixes feature common Greek and common Latin terms in Being and Time. This is an excellent book for those who are beginning their study of Heidegger. Wisnewski is the editor of the Review Journal of Political Philosophy and the author of a number of books, including Understanding Torture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates; general readers.

About the Author

J. Jeremy Wisnewski is associate professor of philosophy at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY.