Introduction to Metaphysics

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Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics is one of the most important works written by this figure of 20th-century philosophy. The new translation aims to make this work more accessible including provision of conventional translations of Greek passages that Heidegger translated unconventionally.

Introduction to Metaphysics is famous for Heidegger’s powerful reinterpretation of Greek thought and infamous for his acknowledgement of the Nazi Party. Julian Young writes that it is a work which “even those on the whole sympathetic to Heidegger have generally taken to be indelibly fascist in character.”Nevertheless, the work has also been seen as being critical of Nazism for being insufficiently radical and suffering from the same spiritual impoverishment as the Soviet Union and the United States.

Introduction to Metaphysics includes a reinterpretation of Greek thought, a vision of Western history, and a glimpse of the reasons behind Heidegger’s support of the Nazi Party in the 1930s. Heidegger tries to reawaken the “question of Being” by challenging some of the most enduring prejudices embedded in Western philosophy and in our everyday practices and langauge. Furthermore, be relates this question to the insights of Greek tragedy into the human condition and to the political and cultural crises of modernity.” “This new translation makes this work more accessible than ever before.

Introduction to Metaphysics

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