Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction—a personal master class in reading—that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history.
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Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction—a personal master class in reading—that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history.
About the series: Intent upon letting the reader discover the central concepts of important thinkers, the How to Read series explains essential topics in lucid, accessible language and provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of these texts vital to our world today.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER IS PERHAPS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL, yet least readily understood, philosopher of the last century. Mark Wrathall unpacks Heidegger's dense prose and guides the reader through Heidegger's early concern with the nature of human existence to his later preoccupation with the threat that technology poses to living a worthwhile life.
Wrathall pays particular attention to Heidegger's revolutionary analysis of human exitence as inextricably shaped by a shared world. This leads to an exploration of Heidegger's views on truth, art, lanuguage, the movement of world history, national socialism, the banality of public life, and the possibility of authentic anticipation fo death as a response to that banality.
Extracts are taken from Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, as well as a variety of his best-known essays and lectures.
MARK A. WRATHALL is associate professor of philosophy at Brigham Young Univeristy. He has edited a number of volumes on Heidegger's thought. SIMON CRITCHLEY is the series editor and a professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City.
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