Pathmarks

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by Martin Heidegger,

Edited by William McNeil

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published May 1998, 384 pages, paper

ISBN 052143968X

Originally published in German under the title Wegmarken, this is the first time that the contents have appeared in English in complete form. Seven essays have never been translated before, while seven others have been thoroughly revised and updated.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface; Preface to the German Edition; Comments on Karl Jaspers' Psychology of Worldviews (1919/21); Phenomenology and Theology (1927); From the Last Marburg Lecture Course (1928); What is Metaphysics? (1929); On the Essence of Ground (1929); On the Essence of Truth (1930); Plato's Doctrine of Truth (1931/32, 1940); On the Essence and Concept in Aristotle's Physics B, 1 (1939); Postscript to "What is Metaphysics?" (1943); Letter on Humanism (1946); Introduction to "What is Metaphysics?" (1949); On the Question of Being (1955); Hegel and the Greeks (1958); Kant's Thesis About Being (1961); Notes; References; Editor's Postscript to the German Edition

Review

Pathmarks is the first-ever English translation of the seminal collection of fourteen essays originally published in German under the title Wegmarken. Given the broad range of time covered in this collection (1919-1961) and the wide range of genres (critical review, public address, letter, and excerpts from a lecture course), Pathmarks gives ample points of reference into Heidegger's work and career. While some of the essays have appeared in different formats, all the translations are new to this volume and many of the works have never appeared in English. Essays include: "Comments on Karl Jaspers's Psychology of Worldviews" (1919/21); "What is Metaphysics" (1929); "Plato's Doctrine of Truth" (1931/32, 1940); "Letter on 'Humanism'" (1946); "On the Question of Being" (1955); "Kant's Thesis about Being" (1961). Richard Rorty wrote about the volume, "This is a great event in the publication of Heidegger in English translation. 'Plato's Doctrine of Truth' is almost worth the price of the volume all by itself, and Pathmarks as a whole is perhaps the best introduction to Heidegger's 'turn' away from the phenomenological ontology of Being and Time."