Heidegger's Poietic Writings From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event [Hardcover]

Engaging the development of Heideggers non-public writings on the event between 1936 and 1941, Daniela Vallega-Neu reveals what Heidegger's private writings kept hidden. Vallega-Neu takes readers on a journey through these volumes, which are not philosophical works in the traditional sense as they read more like fragments, collections of notes, reflections, and expositions. In them, Vallega-Neu sees Heidegger searching for a language that does not simply speak about being, but rather allows a sense of being to emerge in his thinking and saying. She focuses on striking shifts in the tone and movement of Heideggers thinking during these important years. Skillfully navigating the unorthodox and intimate character of these writings, Vallega-Neu provides critical insights into questions of attunement, language, the body, and historicity in Heideggers thinking.

Daniela Vallega-Neus book is a landmark achievement in Heidegger scholarship. It offers a coherent and incisive developmental account of some of the central notions in Heideggers private notebooks of the 1930s and 1940s. Vallega-Neu displays a rigorous, thoughtful, and nuanced understanding of the whole of Heideggers notebooks. She tells a compelling tale of the changes in Heideggers thought at this time.An original contribution to our understanding of a very difficult segment of Heideggers writings. Daniela Vallega-Neu is clearly one of the leading experts on this period of Heideggers work, the period of the poietic or nonpublic texts.

Daniela Vallega-Neu is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is translator (with Richard Rojcewicz) of Martin HeideggersContributions to Philosophy (Of the Event)and author ofHeidegger's Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction.