Heidegger's Later Writings

Download or read book Heidegger's Later Writings written by Lee Braver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Heidegger is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. His later writings are profoundly original and innovative, giving rise to much of postmodernist thinking, yet they are infamously difficult to approach. Heidegger's Later Writings: A Reader's Guide offers a concise and accessible introduction to eight of Heidegger's most important essays. These essays cover many of the central topics of his later thought and are conveniently gathered together in the book Basic Writings, making this guide a perfect companion. Written specifically to help students coming to these texts for the first time, each chapter illuminates a particular essay's structure to enable readers to start finding their own way through the text.