The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics

World, Finitude, Solitude

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by Martin Heidegger,

Translated by William McNeill and Nicholas Walker

Indiana University Press

Due/Published March 2001, 512 pages, paper

ISBN 0253214297

New in paper (S01)

This work, the text of 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.

"Whoever thought that Heidegger . . . has no surprises left inhim had better read this new volume. If its rhetoric is 'hard and heavy'its thought is even harder and essentially more daring thanHeideggerians ever imagined Heidegger could be."--David Farrell Krell

"In this text, which is crucial to understanding the transition from Heidegger's earlier to his later thinking, readers will find a helpful overview of Heidegger's conception of metaphysics . . . a brilliant phenomenological analysis of boredom . . . an investigation of the essence of life and animality . . . and an analysis of the structure of the propositional statement . . . "--Review of Metaphysics