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The fundamental concepts of metaphysics, world, finitude, solitude, Martin Heidegger ; translated by William McNeill and Nicholas Walker

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The fundamental concepts of metaphysics, world, finitude, solitude, Martin Heidegger ; translated by William McNeill and Nicholas Walker

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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no index present

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non fiction

Main title

The fundamental concepts of metaphysics

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bibliography

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31604479

Responsibility statement

Martin Heidegger ; translated by William McNeill and Nicholas Walker

Series statement

Studies in Continental thought

Sub title

world, finitude, solitude

Summary

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 boredom, which he describes as a "fundamental attunement" of modern times

Table Of Contents

1. The detours toward determining the essence of philosophy (metaphysics), and the unavoidability of looking metaphysics in the face. 2. Ambiguity in the essence of philosophy. 3. Justifying the characterization of comprehensive questioning concerning world, finitude, individuation as metaphysics: origin and history of the word "metaphysics." 4. The task of awakening a fundamental attunement and the indication of a concealed fundamental attunement in our contemporary Dasein. 5. The first form of boredom: becoming bored by something. 6. The second form of boredom: being bored with something and the passing of time belonging to it. 7. The third form of boredom: profound boredom as "it is boring for one." 8. The question concerning a particular profound boredom as the fundamental attunement of our contemporary Dasein

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