Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude

This book, the text of Martin Heidegger's lecture course of 1929/30, is crucial for an understanding of Heidegger's transition from the major work of his early years, Being and Time, to his later preoccupations with language, truth, and history. First published in German in 1983 as volume 29/30 of Heidegger's collected works, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics presents an extended treatment of the history of metaphysics and an elaboration of a philosophy of life and nature. Heidegger's concepts of organism, animal behavior, and environment are uniquely developed and defined with intensity. Of major interest is Heidegger's brilliant phenomenological description of the mood of boredome, which he describes as a "fundamental attunement" of modern times.

Author: Martin Heidegger
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 02/22/2001
Series: Studies in Continental Thought
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780253214294