Category: Philosophy
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Sophistes: Plato’s Dialogue and Heidegger’s Lectures in Marburg (1924-25)
Heidegger’s philosophy has an extraordinarily complex relationship to Plato. Heidegger sees Plato as the founder of that Western metaphysics which he claims should be overcome. However, his interpretation of Plato, upon which his reconstruction of the history of philosophy rests, is anything but incontestable from a philological point of view, and has generated much criticism.…
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Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History
Herbert Marcuse was Martin Heidegger’s most famous student. He claimed to have left existentialism behind in 1933 when Heidegger was declared first Nazi rector of Freiburg University and Marcuse fled into exile. The contentious relations between these two thinkers reflected the split in twentieth-century continental philosophy between existentialism and Marxism. But Andrew Feenberg’s careful study…
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‘Introduction to Philosophy—Thinking and Poetizing’ by Martin Heidegger
First published in 1990 as the second part of volume 50 of Heidegger’s Complete Works, Introduction to Philosophy presents Heidegger’s final lecture course given at the University of Freiburg in 1944 before he was drafted into the German army. While the lecture is incomplete, Heidegger provides a clear and provocative discussion of the relation between philosophy and…
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Žižek’s Jokes
Žižek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy. “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein The good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation of Žižekisms. Unlike any other book by Slavoj Žižek, this compact arrangement of jokes culled from his writings…
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The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly influenced philosophers including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Richard Rorty, Hubert Dreyfus, Stanley Cavell, Emmanuel Levinas, Alain Badiou, and Gilles Deleuze. His accounts…
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The Third Wittgenstein: The Post-Investigations Works
This anthology establishes the existence of a distinct and important post-Investigations by Wittgenstein, uncovering the overlooked treasures of the final corpus and crystallising key perceptions of what his last thought was achieving. Speaking of a ‘third Wittgenstein’, this book seeks to correct the traditional bipartite conception of Wittgenstein’s thought into his Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations…
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Friedrich Nietzsche | Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Bänden
De Gruyter, 1988 (2., durchgesehene Auflage) DOWNLOAD: (12x .pdf)
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Friedrich Nietzsche | Digitale Kritische Gesamtausgabe: Werke und Briefe
In the early 1960s, Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari were preparing an Italian edition of Nietzsche’s works. However, they needed a reliable German-language foundation for this. Both the old editions from the archive and the Schlechta edition raised unresolved questions; in particular, none of the previous editions were suitable for a complete edition of Nietzsche’s…
Simon Gros 