Simon Gros

Martin Heidegger’s Being & Time, first published in 1927, is one of the most forceful interventions in modern thought, perpetually demanding that its readers revisit the very essence of philosophy by confronting anew the question of Being. Throughout the twentieth century, it engendered a constellation of interpretive debates across a remarkable range of fields, including…

Elizabeth Cykowski’s Heidegger’s Metaphysical Abyss: Between the Human and the Animal offers a searching interrogation of how Martin Heidegger’s thought constructs, questions, and radicalises the distinction between human beings and non-human animals. In a work that confronts both the subtle dilemmas of Heidegger’s argumentation and the received criticisms that depict him as forging an insurmountable…

In Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language, Hanne Appelqvist curates a philosophically charged exploration of one of the most elusive and pervasive themes in twentieth‐century thought—the very boundary at which language, thought, and experience converge and recede. This collection of essays invites the reader into a multifaceted dialogue that traverses the evolution of Wittgenstein’s ideas…

David Egan’s The Pursuit of an Authentic Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the Everyday is an erudite and multifaceted analysis that combines the ostensibly disparate strands of Wittgenstein’s crisp, aphoristic examinations of language with Heidegger’s profound and complex analyses of being. At first glance, the works of these two titanic figures seem to inhabit entirely different…

Reexamining the case of one of the most famous intellectuals to embrace fascism, this book argues that Martin Heidegger’s politics and philosophy of language emerge from a deep affinity for the ethno-nationalist and anti-Semitic politics of the Nazi movement. Himself a product of a conservative milieu, Heidegger did not have to significantly compromise his thinking…

In this towering reflection on the very foundations of human thought, language, and the ethical life, the reader is drawn into an inquiry that challenges not only the boundaries of what can be expressed but also the very limits of the representational order itself. This work emerges as both a rigorous exegesis and a transformative…

In this formidable and exquisitely rigorous exploration, Louis P. Blond offers a penetrating reappraisal of the twin challenges posed by Heidegger and Nietzsche to the long-entrenched tradition of Western metaphysics. The work unfolds as an inquiry into the very conditions under which beings emerge into presence and, by extension, how the nothing—a concept traditionally relegated…