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This recording contains four important and related works by Heidegger What Is Philosophy What Is Metaphysics On the Essence of Truth and The Question of Being
It starts with What Is Philosophy which originated as a lecture given in Normandy in 1955 and was first published a year later The translators acknowledge that What Is Metaphysics is often regarded as a particularly key work they feel that a better preliminary understanding of Heidegger can be obtained from What is Philosophy They write Heidegger is concerned with the fact that philosophy has lost its receptivity to the Being of being/entity In other words philosophy no longer seeks the groundless ground of Being which allows us to ask meaningful questions about being/entity or its appearances Heidegger uses Being as the inner light that illumination through which we become conscious of our meaning or of our existence and of existence itself The light allows us to know that we are beings
The second work on this recording then is the more famous essay What Is Metaphysics published in 1929 to which some 14 years later he added a Postscript Both texts are presented here Heidegger states that rather than enter into a discussion about metaphysics he sets out to discuss a definite metaphysical question Our project begins with the presentation of a metaphysical question then goes on to its development and ends with its answer
In On the Essence of Truth 1930 Heidegger explains The question as to the nature of truth is not concerned with whether truth is the truth of practical experience or of economic calculationor the truth of scientific research or artor religious beliefbut what is the mark of truth of every kind
The final essay on this recording is The Question of Being 1955 Its original title in a literal translation from German was Concerning the Line and was included in a publication honouring the 60th birthday of the philosopher Ernst Jnger Heidegger wrote it in the form of a letter in response to an earlier treatise Jnger dedicated to Heidegger called Across the Line Heidegger questions Jngers notion of zero line of nihilism the essence of nihilism stems from a discussion of Being as being/entity
Translations by Jean T Wilde and William Kluback What Is Philosophy and The Question of Being and R F C Hull What Is Metaphysics and On the Essence of Truth
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