Book description
Martin Heidegger's 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 Heidegger's conception of being.
"Written during the dark years 1936-1938, these Contributions
help us to make the transition from Heidegger's masterpiece, Being and
Time, to his later thinking. Some of the darkest pages Heidegger wrote
are here, and also some of the most brilliant. The translation by
Richard Rojcewicz and Daniela Vallega-Neu is judicious and
inspired." -David Farrell Krell, DePaul University
Richard Rojcewicz is Scholar-in-Residence in the Philosophy
Department at Duquesne
University. He is author of The Gods and
Technology: A Reading of Heidegger and translator of several volumes
of Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe, including Basic Concepts of Ancient
Philosophy (IUP, 2008).
Daniela Vallega-Neu teaches philosophy at the University of Oregon.
She is author of Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy: An
Introduction (IUP, 2004) and editor (with Charles E. Scott, Susan
Schoenbohm, and Alejandro Vallega) of Companion to Heidegger's
Contributions to Philosophy (IUP, 2001).
