Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) [Hardcover]

[Heidegger's] greatest work... essential for all collections. Choice

... students of Heidegger will surely find this book indispensable. Library Journal

Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), written in 1936-38 and first published in 1989 as Beitr?ge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), is Heideggers most ground-breaking work after the publication of Being and Time in 1927. If Being and Time is perceived as undermining modern metaphysics, Contributions undertakes to reshape the very project of thinking.

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Parvis Emad is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and the founding coeditor (with Kenneth Maly) of Heidegger Studies. With Kenneth Maly he has translated Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit and Phenomenological Interpretation of Kants Critique of Pure Reason by Martin Heidegger and Encounters with Martin Heidegger by Heinrich Wiegand Petzet.

Kenneth Maly is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and coeditor (with John Sallis) of Heraclitean Fragments.

Publication of this volume is the most important event in Heidegger scholarship in English since the 1962 publication of the first English translation of Sein und Zeit. Although a new translation of Being and Time has appeared (CH, Mar'97), it is difficult to imagine that this inventive and highly readable translation of Beitr?ge (Beitrage) zur Philosophie (vom Ereignis), by Emad (emer., DePaul Univ.) and Maly (Univ. of WisconsinLaCrosse), will ever be superseded. Indeed, Being and Time appears almost conventional in light of the global transformation of ordinary language that characterizes Contributions to Philosophy. Emad and Maly acknowledge that the German original itself is not readily accessible to German readers. Since the 1989 posthumous publication of the Beitr?ge (Beitrage) , the relation of this 193638 manuscript to Heidegger's thinking has bel3