Heidegger For Beginners
By Eric LeMay, Jennifer A. Pitts and Paul Gordon
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Heidegger For Beginners explicates many of Heidegger’s central ideas, including the Nothing, average-everydayness, care, existence, being-in-the-world, the One, the critique of technology, anxiety, and most importantly, being – a notion which may offer us the key to understanding the very mystery of our own existence. Explained here in a way that makes it both accessible and relevant, Heidegger’s thought not only challenges an entire intellectual tradition, but also challenges our own self-conceptions, the very manner in which we, as humans, choose to exist.
Eric LeMay
Eric LeMay received an M.F.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature at Northwestern University. An award-winning teacher, he has taught at Harvard, Columbia, and is currently a faculty member at his alma mater, Ohio University. He has worked as an editor at The Poetry Society of America, TriQuarterly, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and has recently become the Web Editor for Alimentum: The Literature of Food. His previous work has appeared in The Nation, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, and The Harvard Review; it has been noted in the Best American Essays series and featured on Poetry Daily. He has published one book of poems.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Just what I needed! ... An ACCESSIBLE introduction to Heidegger ... and with a sense of humor too!
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Heidegger For Beginners - Eric LeMay
For Beginners LLC
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Text Copyright: © 1994 Eric C. LeMay and Jennifer A. Pitts
Illustration Copyright: © 1994 Paul Gordon
Cover Illustration: Terrie Dunkelberger
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v3.1
To Dr. James Edwards and Dr. Albert Mosley:
"Yet releasement toward
things and openness to the
mystery never happen of
themselves. They do not
befall us accidentally.
Both Flourish only through
persistent, courageous
thinking."
Heidegger Memorial Address
Introduction and Background
The Ancient Greeks
Descartes
From Rousseau to Kant
Nietzsche
Kierkegaard and Husserl
…enter Heidegger
Being
Dasein
The One
Existentialism
The Thinking Thing: Human-Centered Philosophy
Technology and Authenticity
Language — the house of Being
To be.
Heidegger’s Influence
Heidegger & Nazism
Further Reading
A sampling of Heidegger’s works available in English
Man… is not merely a living
creature possessing among
other faculties that of language.
Language is rather the house of
Being and man exists dwelling
therein as he guards the truth of
Being to which he belongs.
Introduction and Background
At a secluded cottage in Germany’s Black Forest region, a thinker presents us with the challenge of our modern age…
The world and everything in it exists to be used—by us! Why? Because we are human; because we give the world its frame of reference
; because we think.
For a clear understanding of Heidegger’s philosophy, it is necessary to go back a few thousand years and familiarize ourselves with some of the ancient Greeks who started things off by asking a few nagging questions…
The Ancient Greeks
During each disembodied state, we