Basic Writings, Vol. 1

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by Martin Heidegger,

Edited by David Farrell Krell

Harper Collins Publishers

Due/Published August 1976, 452 pages, paper

ISBN 0060637633

This revised and expanded edition of Martin Heidegger's Basic Writings includes ten key essays plus the introduction to Being and Time.An essential collection, Basic Writings provides a concise introduction to the thought of this controversial and important twentieth-century philosopher. Editor David Krell has expanded and improved this popular collectiion by adding The Way To Language and the complete version of The Origin Of The Work Of Art. He has also revised the translations of the remaining essays and updated his Introductions, Notes, and the Suggestions For Further Study.

Also included in this volume are: WHAT IS METAPHYSICS?; ON THE ESSENCE OF TRUTH; LETTER ON HUMANISM; MODERN SCIENCE, METAPHYSICS, AND MATHEMATICS; THE QUESTION CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY; BUILDING DWELLING THINKING; WHAT CALLS FOR THINKING?; AND THE END OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE TASK OF THINKING.