Introduction to Metaphysics

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by Martin Heidegger,

Translated by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt

Yale University Press

Due/Published September 2000, 284 pages, paper

ISBN 0300083289

Available in a new translation! (F00)

First published shortly after Being and Time, Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics includes a powerful reinterpretation of Greek thought and a sweeping vision of Western history. Heidegger tries to reawaken the "Question of Being" by challenging some of the most enduring prejudices embedded in Western philosophy and in our everyday practices and language. Furthermore, he relates this question to the insights of Greek tragedy into the human condition and to the political and cultural crises of modernity. There are also extensive notes, a German-English glossary, and an introduction that discusses the history of the text, its basic themes, and its overall place in Heidegger's work.

"A superb translation combined with a nuanced understanding of the philosophical issues in the text. This is an important event within Heidegger scholarship."--Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University