Book description
In these lectures, delivered in 1933-1934 while he was Rector of the
University of Freiburg and an active supporter of the National
Socialist regime, Martin Heidegger addresses the history of
metaphysics and the notion of truth from Heraclitus to Hegel. First
published in German in 2001, these two lecture courses offer a
sustained encounter with Heidegger's thinking during a period when he
attempted to give expression to his highest ambitions for a philosophy
engaged with politics and the world. While the lectures are strongly
nationalistic and celebrate the revolutionary spirit of the time, they
also attack theories of racial supremacy in an attempt to stake out a
distinctively Heideggerian understanding of what it means to be a
people. This careful translation offers valuable insight into
Heidegger's views on language, truth, animality, and life, as well as
his political thought and activity.
"Fried and Polt's translation of Martin Heidegger's Being and
Truth is a well-crafted and careful rendering of an important and
demanding volume of the Complete Works." -Andrew Mitchell, Emory University
Gregory Fried is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department
at Suffolk University. He is author of Heidegger's Polemos: From Being
to Politics and editor (with Richard Polt) of A Companion to
Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics.
Richard Polt is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at
Xavier University. He is author of The Emergency of Being: On
Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy and Heidegger: An Introduction.
