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Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement
(November 2019)
Ian Alexander Moore - Author
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Provides the first systematic interpretation of Heidegger’s relation to Eckhart, centering on the idea that we must release ourselves in order to know the truth.
In the late Middle Ages the philosopher and mystic Meister Eckhart preached that to know the truth you must be the truth. But how to be the truth? Eckhart’s answer comes in the form of an imperative: release yourself, let be. Only then will you be able to u...(Read More) |
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The Movement of Showing
(October 2019)
Indirect Method, Critique, and Responsibility in Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger
Johan de Jong - Author
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Explores why Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger conceive of their thought as a “movement” rather than as a presentation of results or conclusions.
This book explores the idea shared by Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger that the value of their thought is not found in its results or conclusions, but in its “movement.” All three describe the heart of their work in terms of a pathway, development, or movement that see...(Read More) |
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Beyond the Subject
(September 2019)
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Hermeneutics
Gianni Vattimo - Author
Peter Carravetta - Translated, edited, and with an introduction by
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An original reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that paved the way for Vattimo’s conception of weak thought.
In Beyond the Subject Gianni Vattimo offers a reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that shows how the premises to overcome the metaphysical Subject were already embedded in their thought. Vattimo makes a case for a Nietzsche who is not concerned with the structure and glorification of the Overman, but rather wit...(Read More) |
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The Experience of Truth
(November 2017)
Gaetano Chiurazzi - Author
Robert T. Valgenti - Translator
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Advances a hermeneutic conception of truth as a mode of being, in dialogue with Aristotle, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Heidegger, Putnam, and Rorty.
What does it mean to say that something is true? In this book Gaetano Chiurazzi argues that when we say that something is true, we do not say something merely about a state of affairs, but also about ourselves. Truth is not just the fact of “what is out there,” but a mode of e...(Read More) |
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The Tragedy of Philosophy
(September 2016)
Kant's Critique of Judgment and the Project of Aesthetics
Andrew Cooper - Author
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Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy.
In The Tragedy of Philosophy Andrew Cooper challenges the prevailing idea of the death of tragedy, arguing that this assumption reflects a problematic view of both tragedy and philosophy—one that stifles the profound contribution that tragedy could provide to philosophy today. To build this case, Cooper presents a novel reading of Immanuel Kant&...(Read More) |
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Ecstasy, Catastrophe
(August 2015)
Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks
David Farrell Krell - Author
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Lectures on ecstatic temporality and on Heidegger’s political legacy.
In Ecstasy, Catastrophe, David Farrell Krell provides insight into two areas of Heidegger’s thought: his analysis of ecstatic temporality in Being and Time (1927)and his “political” remarks in the recently published Black Notebooks (1931–1941). The first part of Krell’s book focuses on Heidegger’s inter...(Read More) |
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Complicated Presence
(June 2015)
Heidegger and the Postmetaphysical Unity of Being
Jussi Backman - Author
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A synthetic assessment of Heidegger’s entire path of thinking as a radical attempt to thematize and rethink the fundamental notions of unity dominating the Western metaphysical tradition.
From its Presocratic beginnings, Western philosophy concerned itself with a quest for unity both in terms of the systematization of knowledge and as a metaphysical search for a unity of being—two trends that can be regarded as converging...(Read More) |
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Sparks Will Fly
(April 2015)
Benjamin and Heidegger
Andrew Benjamin - Editor
Dimitris Vardoulakis - Editor
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Collected essays consider points of affinity and friction between Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger.
Despite being contemporaries, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger never directly engaged with one another. Yet, Hannah Arendt, who knew both men, pointed out common ground between the two. Both were concerned with the destruction of metaphysics, the development of a new way of reading and understanding literat...(Read More) |
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The Origin of Time
(April 2015)
Heidegger and Bergson
Heath Massey - Author
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A critical examination of the relationship between the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Henri Bergson, focusing on the central issue of time.
The recent renewal of interest in the philosophy of Henri Bergson has increased both recognition of his influence on twentieth-century philosophy and attention to his relationship to phenomenology. Until now, the question of Martin Heidegger’s debt to Bergson has re...(Read More) |
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Naturalizing Heidegger
(March 2015)
His Confrontation with Nietzsche, His Contributions to Environmental Philosophy
David E. Storey - Author
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Explores the evolution of Heidegger’s thinking about nature and its relevance for environmental ethics.
In Naturalizing Heidegger, David E. Storey proposes a new interpretation of Heidegger’s importance for environmental philosophy, finding in the development of his thought from the early 1920s to his later work in the 1940s the groundwork for a naturalistic ontology of life. Primarily drawing on Heidegger’...(Read More) |
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