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Martin Heidegger
[1889-1976]
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German philosopher Martin Heidegger is revered for his philosophical ideas "Language is the house of the truth of Being." "Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one." "The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking." "Command is the basis of the essence of domination."
— Martin Heidegger "Heidegger's thinking must be understood and confronted before any complete formulation
and reviled for his support of Hitler and National Socialism.
"The possible ranks higher than the actual."
of modern political theory is possible." — attributed to Leo Strauss [1899-1973]
Martin Heidegger was born in Meßkirch, Baden, Southern Germany on 26 September 1889; he graduated college in 1916 and served in the German Army during the last year of World War I. He taught at the University of Marburg from 1923 to 1928, and his lectures show the development of his original philosophical ideas, largely expanded from Aristotle. "Sein und Zeit (Time & Being)" was published in February 1927 and was recognized as a groundbreaking philosophical work. He was appointed to the seat vacated by Edmund Husserl [1859-1938] at University of Freiburg, and lived in that city for the rest of his life. His collaboration with the Nazis during World War II led to mild reprisals only, and he returned to teaching from 1951 until 1967; he died on 26 May 1976 and was buried in the town that he was born in.
Heidegger married student Elfride Petri on 21 March 1917; they had what can be described as an 'open marriage', with both of them having affairs with other people. Martin had a long romantic relationship with Hannah Arendt and a steamy affair (over many decades) with Elisabeth Blochmann, both students of his. Heidegger's letters to his wife contain information about several other affairs of his, and were published in 2015.
Heidegger mentions the concept of Destruktion in "Being & Time", and is said to have planned a sequel book on that subject. What is meant by the term is more like 'dismantling', which is the meaning also given by Jacques Derrida [1930-2004] to his concept of deconstruction. {It might seem that Heidegger did not write such a work because Derrida had already done so, except that Derrida's primary work on the subject was published in 1967.}
Heidegger added to his controversies by publishing is "Open Letter On Humanism (Brief über den Humanismus)" in 1947. The original letter was written in December 1946 as response to a series of questions by French philosopher Jean Beaufret [1907-82] about the development of French existentialism; Heidegger reworked the letter for publication in 1947 (50 pages worth), which distanced himself from Sartre's position and existentialism in general, stating that he was not an existentialist, and that he was concerned not with Man but with Being.
Heidegger's work was most-influenced by Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and Husserl; in turn, Heidegger influenced all of the major Existentialist philosophers, as well as French philosophers Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, and Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.
Martin Heidegger entry at Wikipedia
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Major Works
"Being and Time" [1927]
"We do not say: Being is, Time is, but rather: there is Being and there is Time."
— Martin Heidegger
"Being & Time is the most revolutionary philosophical text of the XXth Century." ~~~ Jason Reza Jorjani, PhD
 | "Being and Time: A Translation of Sein und Zeit" [1962] Translated by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson, Foreword by Taylor Carman HarperPerennial 8½x5½ pb [7/2008] for $15.59 Blackwell Publrs 8¼x5½ pb [1978] out of print/used HarperOne 8½x5¾ hardcover [8/62] out of print/used |
 | "Being and Time: A Translation of Sein und Zeit" [1996] Translation by Joan Stambaugh SUNY Press 9x6 pb [10/97] for $19.55 SUNY Press 9¼x6 hardcover [10/96] out of print/used |
1935 Einführung in die Metaphysik (1935, published 1953), Gesamtausgabe Volume 40 Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000)
1936–8 Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) (1936–1938, published 1989), Gesamtausgabe Volume 65 Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), trans. by Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999); re-translated as Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event), trans. by Richard Rojcewicz and Daniela Vallega-Neu (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012)
1942 Hölderlins Hymne »Der Ister« (1942, published 1984), Gesamtausgabe Volume 53 Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister", trans. by William McNeill and Julia Davis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996)
1949 "Die Frage nach der Technik", in Gesamtausgabe Volume 7 "The Question Concerning Technology", in Heidegger, Martin, Basic Writings: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, ed. David Farrell Krell (New York: Harper Collins, 1993)
1950 Holzwege, Gesamtausgabe Volume 5. This collection includes "Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes" (1935–1936) Off the Beaten Track. This collection includes "The Origin of the Work of Art"
1955–56 Der Satz vom Grund, Gesamtausgabe Volume 10 The Principle of Reason, trans. Reginald Lilly (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1991)
1955–57 Identität und Differenz, Gesamtausgabe Volume 11 Identity and Difference, trans. by Joan Stambaugh (New York: Harper & Row, 1969)
1959 Gelassenheit, in Gesamtausgabe Volume 16 Discourse On Thinking
1959 Unterwegs zur Sprache, Gesamtausgabe Volume 12 On the Way To Language, published without the essay "Die Sprache" ("Language") by arrangement with Heidegger
"Kant and The Problem of Metaphysics (Kant und Das Problem Der Metaphysik)" [1929]
http://www.amazon.com/Problem-Metaphysics-Studies-Continental-Thought/dp/0253210674/
trans. by Richard Taft (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990)
"Vom Wesen des Grundes (The Essence of Reason)" [1929]
 | "Vom Wesen des Grundes (The Essence of Reason" [orig 1929, English 1969] by Martin Heidegger, Translation by future filmmaker Terrence Malick Northwestern Univ Press bilingual edition 7½x5¼ hardcover [7/69] out of print/used Malick's 'Introduction' & 'Critical Notes' available as free online etexts |
"An Introduction To Metaphysics" [1935]
http://www.amazon.com/Companion-Heidegger%60s-Introduction-Metaphysics/dp/0300085249/
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Metaphysics-Yale-Nota-Bene/dp/0300083289/
"Contributions To Philosophy (From Enowning)" [1936-38]
http://www.amazon.com/Contributions-Philosophy-Enowning-Studies-Continental/dp/0253336066/
"The Question Concerning Technology" [1949]
http://www.amazon.com/Question-Concerning-Technology-Other-Essays/dp/0061319694/
"Off The Beaten Track" [1950]
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Off-Beaten-Track-Martin/dp/0521805074/
"The Principle of Reason" [1955-56]
"Identity and Difference" [1955-57]
http://www.amazon.com/Identity-Difference-Martin-Heidegger/dp/0226323781/
"Discourse On Thinking" [1959]
http://www.amazon.com/Discourse-Thinking-Torchbooks-Martin-Heidegger/dp/0061314595/
"On The Way To Language" [1959]
http://www.amazon.com/Way-Language-Martin-Heidegger/dp/0060638591/
"Nietzsche" [1961]
 | "Nietzsche" in four volumes [1991] by Martin Heidegger, Translated by David Farrell Krell Volumes 1 & 2: HarperOne 8¼x5½ pb [3/91] for $22.45 Volumes 3 & 4: HarperOne 8¼x5½ pb [3/91] for $21.60 |
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"Nietzsche, Heidegger, and The Transition To Postmodernity" [1996] by Gregory Bruce Smith Univ Chicago Press 9x6 pb [2/96] for $22.00 Univ Chicago Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/96] out of print/used |
Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900] Page
 | "Basic Writings: Ten Key Essays, Plus The Introduction To Being & Time" [1964; rev 2008] by Martin Heidegger, Edited by David Farrell Krell HarperPerennial 7¾x5¼ pb [11/2008] for $11.18 HarperCollins 8x5 pb [2/93] out of print/many used Harper & Row hardcover [1964] out of print/scarce |
"Heidegger Gesamtausgabe (Collected Works)"
published by Vittorio Klostermann - has not yet been completed (2019)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidegger_Gesamtausgabe
The Gesamtausgabe is divided into four series: I. Published writings, 1910–1976; II. Lecture courses, 1919–1944: early Freiburg 1919–1923,
Marburg 1923–1928, Freiburg 1928–1944; III. Unpublished material, lectures, and notes; IV. Notes and recordings
Other Works
The End of Philosophy by Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (Translator) /9780226323831/
The Phenomenology of religious Life by MH, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei (Translator) /9780253342485/
 | "The History of Beyng" [1998] by Martin Heidegger, Translated by William McNeill & Jeffrey Powell Originally published in 1998 as Volume 69 of "Heidegger's Complete Works"; this collection of Heidegger's reflections from the 1930s opens new avenues for understanding the trajectory of Heidegger's thinking during that crucial time Kindle Edition from Indiana Univ Press [11/2015] for $7.99 Indiana Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [11/2015] for $44.64 |
 | "Pathmarks (Wegmarken)" [1998] by Martin Heidegger, Edited by William McNeill fourteen essays by Martin Heidegger (originally published in German under the title 'Wegmarken'), an essential resource for all students of Heidegger Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [4/98] for $41.91 Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/98] out of print/used |
http://www.amazon.com/Aristotles-Metaphysics-1-3-Actuality-Continental/dp/0253329108/
http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Ancient-Philosophy-Studies-Continental/dp/0253349656/
http://www.amazon.com/Essence-Human-Freedom-Introduction-Philosophy/dp/0826479367/
http://www.amazon.com/Heideggers-Concept-Modern-European-Philosophy/dp/0521103991/
http://www.amazon.com/History-Concept-Phenomenology-Existential-Philosophy/dp/0253207177/
http://www.amazon.com/Fundamental-Concepts-Metaphysics-Finitude-Solitude/dp/0253214297/
http://www.amazon.com/Metaphysical-Foundations-Phenomenology-Existential-Philosophy/dp/0253207649/
http://www.amazon.com/Ontology-Hermeneutics-Facticity-Studies-Continental/dp/0253220211/
http://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Language-Thought-Perennial-Classics/dp/0060937289/
http://www.amazon.com/Problems-Phenomenology-Studies-Existential-Philosophy/dp/025320478X/
http://www.amazon.com/What-Called-Thinking-Martin-Heidegger/dp/006090528X/
"Heidegger's Black Notebooks", written between 1931 and 1941 and first published in 2014, contain several expressions of anti-semitic sentiments, which have led to a re-evaluation of Heidegger's relation to Nazism
Works About Martin Heidegger
"Lebensphilosophie und Phänomenologie: Eine Auseinandersetzung der Diltheyschen Richtung mit Heidegger und Husserl" [Leipzig 1930]
the first extended critical appropriation of Heidegger, written by Dilthey's student Georg Misch
"Heidegger and Modern Philosophy: Critical Essays" [Yale Univ Press 1978] Edited by Michael Murray
http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Concepts-Studies-Continental-Thought/dp/0253212154/
http://www.amazon.com/Companion-Heidegger-Blackwell-Companions-Philosophy/dp/1405163666/
http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Ancient-Philosophy-Studies-Continental/dp/0253349656/
http://www.amazon.com/Conversation-Martin-Heidegger-Raymond-Tallis/dp/0333949498/
http://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Being-Heideggers-Contributions-Philosophy/dp/0801437326/
http://www.amazon.com/Encounters-Dialogues-Martin-Heidegger-1929-1976/dp/0226664414/
http://www.amazon.com/Essence-Truth-Allegory-Theaetetus-Continuum/dp/0826477046/
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Seminars-Studies-Continental-Thought/dp/0253343631/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Aristotle-Question-Ted-Sadler/dp/0485114860/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Aristotle-Twofoldness-Contemporary-Continental/dp/0791464911/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Case-Pb-Philosophy-Politics/dp/0877229082/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Controversy-Critical-Reader/dp/0262731010/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-East-West-Dialogue-Anticipating-Philosophy/dp/0415957192/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Introduction-Richard-F-Polt/dp/0801485649/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Metaphysics-Feeling-Continental-Philosophy/dp/0826498752/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Modernity-Luc-Ferry/dp/0226244628/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Philosophy-Nazism-Julian-Young/dp/0521644941/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Poets-Poiesis-Philosophy-Literary/dp/1573925772/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Problem-Knowledge-Charles-Guignon/dp/0915145626/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Quest-Sacred-Contributions-Phenomenology/dp/1402000367/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Question-Existing-Philosophy-Literary/dp/1573925004/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Rorty-Eastern-Thinkers-Cross-cultural/dp/0791467511/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Very-Critical-Introduction-Interventions/dp/0802860079/
http://www.amazon.com/Heideggers-Atheism-Refusal-Theological-Voice/dp/0268030588/
http://www.amazon.com/Heideggers-Confusions-Paul-Edwards/dp/1591022363/
http://www.amazon.com/Heideggers-Political-Thinking-James-Ward/dp/0870239708/
http://www.amazon.com/Heideggers-Roots-Nietzsche-National-Socialism/dp/0801472660/
http://www.amazon.com/Heideggers-Volk-National-Socialism-Cultural/dp/080475070X/
http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Heidegger/dp/0393328805/
http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Heidegger-George-Steiner/dp/0226772322/
http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Heidegger-Holocaust-Alan-Milchman/dp/1573926205/
http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Heidegger-Routledge-Critical-Thinkers/dp/0415229294/
http://www.amazon.com/Ontology-Hermeneutics-Facticity-Studies-Continental/dp/0253220211/
http://www.amazon.com/Parmenides-Studies-Continental-Thought-Heidegger/dp/0253212146/
http://www.amazon.com/Phenomenological-Interpretations-Aristotle-Initiation-Research/dp/0253339936/
http://www.amazon.com/Platos-Sophist-Studies-Continental-Thought/dp/025321629X/
http://www.amazon.com/Question-Heideggers-Phenomenology-Northwestern-University/dp/0810108518/
http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Heidegger-Question-Jacques-Derrida/dp/0226143198/
http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Abroad-Heidegger-Friendship-Forgiveness/dp/0393068331/
http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-After-Heidegger-David-Wood/dp/0745616232/
http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Heidegger-Displacements-Studies-Continental/dp/0253342309/
http://www.amazon.com/Time-Death-Heideggers-Intersections-Continental/dp/0754650081/
http://www.amazon.com/tournant-pensee-Martin-Heidegger-Epimethee/dp/2130398499/
http://www.amazon.com/Towards-Definition-Philosophy-Continuum-Impacts/dp/1847063047/
http://www.amazon.com/Transcendental-Heidegger-Steven-Crowell/dp/0804755116/
http://www.amazon.com/Translating-Heidegger-Contemporary-Philosophy-Sciences/dp/1591021006/
The Adventure of Difference: Philosophy after Nietzsche and Heidegger 9780801846434
Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Inwood, M. J. Inwood 9780192854100
"Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse" [11/2001] by Richard Wolin
http://www.amazon.com/Heideggers-Children-Hannah-Herbert-Marcuse/dp/069111479X/
http://www.amazon.com/Heideggers-Children-Hannah-Herbert-Marcuse/dp/0691070199/
Heidegger : Thought and Historicity by Christopher Fynsk 9780801481581
Heidegger's Philosophy of Being : A Critical Interpretation by Herman Philipse /9780691001197/
Heidegger's Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks by Charles R. Bambach
/9780801440724/ + /9780801472664/
The Later Heidegger by George Pattison /9780415201971/
On Heidegger's Nazism and Philosophy by Tom Rockmore 9780520077119
The Question of Being : A Reversal of Heidegger by Stanley Rosen /9781587316753/
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to the Later Heidegger by George Pattison /9780415201964/
 | "Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and A New Possibility of Being Human" [2019] by Bruce Hyde & Drew Kopp, Afterword by Micheal E. Zimmerman Kindle Edition from Wiley & Sons [7/2019] for $27.00 Read the ebook with the free Kindle apps and on Fire Tablet devices; not supported on Kindle E-readers. Wiley & Sons 8¼x10½ pb [8/2019] for $22.99 see also the Werner Erhard Page at Working Minds Philosophy of Empowerment |
 | "Time of The Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and The Decade That Reinvented Philosophy" [2020] by Wolfram Eilenberger author stylishly traces the paths of these remarkable & turbulent lives, which feature not only philosophy but several important figures of the early century, including John Maynard Keynes, Hannah Arendt, and Bertrand Russell, telling a gripping story about four of history's most ambitious and passionate thinkers Kindle Edition from Penguin Press [8/2020] for $15.99 Penguin Books 8½x5½ pb [DUE Aug 2021] for $19.00 
Penguin Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/2020] for $21.06 |
Personal Works (Letters, etc.)
http://www.amazon.com/Letters-1925-1975-Hannah-Arendt/dp/0151005257/
Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political by Dana Villa /9780691044002/
http://www.amazon.com/Heidegger-Jaspers-Correspondence-1920-1963-Contemporary-Philosophy/dp/1591020603/
http://www.amazon.com/Letters-his-Wife-Martin-Heidegger/dp/0745641350/
Stageplays, Movies & TV, Other Media
Martin Heidegger credits at IMDb
"Die Nacht (The Night)" [Germany 1985]
 | 6-hour color and b&w film of actress Edith Clever reading texts in German • Co-produced, adapted & directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg; featuring texts by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Martin Heidegger, Heinrich Heine, Eduard Mörike, Friedrich Nietzsche, poet Novalis, Plato, Chief Seattle, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, and Richard Wagner
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Being In The World: Finding Meaning Thru Philosophy . . . Today" docufilm [indep 2010]
 | Artists work and struggle to introspect and talk about their art and their craft and Hubert Dreyfus and his students reflect on Heidegger and his philosophy; the artisans cannot explain in rational terms how they do what they do: the being is in the doing. Interviews and action intertwine to make a challenging philosophy clear to the lay viewer • Directed by Tao Ruspoli; featuring Tony Austin, Taylor Carman, Leah Chase, Ryan Cross, Juan Del Gastor, Hubert Dreyfus, John Haugeland, Sean Kelly, Manuel Molina, Austin Peralta, Hiroshi Sakaguchi, Jumane Smith, Iain Thomson, Mark Wrathall
Alive Mind widescreen color DVD [10/2012] for $17.27 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
in the 2012 film "Hannah Arendt", Heidegger is portrayed by actor Klaus Pohl
"An Introduction To Heidegger: Being and Time"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDAyhsZ-Gs4 [11.25]
"Heidegger: Being and Time Part II - Time"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmWI17Wbodo [7.55]
"Heidegger's Being and Time" with Jason Reza Jorjani
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21rydhdjC1s [37.05] 10/2017
"Heidegger & Modern Existentialism"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQjj0vDHDk [45.26]
"Mark Blitz Talks To Bill Kristol on Martin Heidegger"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS9WAOmDoO8 [45.53]
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https://www.arendt-heidegger.com/
ARENDT-HEIDEGGER: A LOVE STORY
by Douglas Lackey
directed by Alexander Harrington
world premiere
September 27 to October 14, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVrOAl9SqRE [10.01]
Arendt Heidegger interview - Douglas Lackey and Alexander Harrington
Friends, Family & Colleagues
Martin Heidegger was born in Baden, Southern Germany in September 1889; he graduated college in 1916 and served in the German Army during the last year of World War I; he taught at the University of Marburg from 1923 to 1928, published "Time & Being" in 1927, and was appointed to the seat vacated by Edmund Husserl [1859-1938] at University of Freiburg; he lived in that city for the rest of his life. His collaboration with the Nazis during World War II led to mild reprisals only, and he rteturned to teaching from 1951 until 1967; he died in 1976 and was buried in the town that he was born in.
wife Elfride Petri Heidegger [] - married March 1917
first son Jörg - born in 1919
son Hermann Heidegger [] born in 1920
{biological father & godfather was family friend & doctor Friedel Caesar}
student, lifelong mistress & friend Hannah Arendt [1906-75]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt
Hannah Arendt credits at IMDb
student, mistress & friend Elisabeth Blochmann [1892-1972]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Blochmann
Karl Löwith
Hans Jonas
L i n k s
Martin Heidegger entry at Wikipedia
German-language official Martin Heidegger site
PAF's Martin Heidegger site
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