Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event) [Hardcover]

Martin Heideggers Contributions to Philosophy reflects his famous philosophical turning. In this work, Heidegger returns to the question of being from its inception in Being and Time to a new questioning of being as event. Heidegger opens up the essential dimensions of his thinking on the historicality of being that underlies all of his later writings. Contributions was composed as a series of private ponderings that were not originally intended for publication. They are nonlinear and radically at odds with the traditional understanding of thinking. This translation presents Heidegger in plain and straightforward terms, allowing surer access to this new turn in Heideggers conception of being.

I had tried to study the Contributions before, but I found it impossible. Now, thanks to this new translation, I have access to what may turn out to be the most important philosophical work of our time.

Translators' Introduction

I. Prospect
II. The Reasoning
III. The Interplay
IV. The Leap
V. The Grounding
a. Da-sein and the projection of being
b. Da-sein
c. The essence of truth
d. Time-space as the abyssal ground
e. The essential occurrence of truth as a sheltering
VI. The Future Ones
VII. The Last God
VIII. Beyng

Editor's Afterword
German-English Glossary
English-German Glossary
Greek-English Glossary
Lating-English Glossary
Bibliography

Contributions is among the most challenging works of our time: rigorous, it is also acrobatic in its leaps and logic; imaginative, it is nonetheless precise; intensely self-reflexive, it engages far-reaching questions. Its greatest challenge though is its language and the new vocabulary it forges. This new translation meets that challenge and so marks a real advance in our understanding of this impossible, yet indispensible book.Written during the dark years 1936-1938, these Contributions help us to make the transition from Heideggers masterpiece, Being and Timlã3