Heidegger

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXXIV

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • William J. Richardson

      Pages 1-24

3. From There to Being

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Being and Time

      • William J. Richardson

      Pages 27-105

   3. Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics

      • William J. Richardson

      Pages 106-160

   4. The Essence of Ground

      • William J. Richardson

      Pages 161-193

   5. What is Metaphysics?

      • William J. Richardson

      Pages 194-207

4. Reversal

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. On the Essence of Truth

      • William J. Richardson

      Pages 211-254

   3. The Self-Assertion of the German University

      • William J. Richardson

      Pages 255-258

   4. Introduction to Metaphysics

      • William J. Richardson

      Pages 259-297

5. From Being to There

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299

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   2. The De-volution of Thought

      1. Plato

         • William J. Richardson

         Pages 301-308

      2. Aristotle

         • William J. Richardson

         Pages 309-320

      3. Descartes

         • William J. Richardson

         Pages 321-330

      4. Hegel

         • William J. Richardson

         Pages 331-360

      5. Nietzsche

         • William J. Richardson

         Pages 361-382

      6. Logic

         • William J. Richardson

         Pages 383-386

      7. Humanism

         • William J. Richardson

         Pages 387-390

      8. Transition: Rilke

         • William J. Richardson

         Pages 391-400

Dear Father Richardson: It is with some hesitation that I attempt to answer the two principal questions you posed in your letter of March I, 1962. The first touches on the initial impetus that determined the way my thought would gO. l The other looks for information about the much discussed "reversal" [in my development]. I hesitate with my answers, for they are necessarily no more than indications [of much more to be said]. The lesson of long experience leads me to surmise that such indications will not be taken as directions for the road of independent reflection on the matter pointed out which each must travel for himself. [Instead they] will gain notice as though they were an opinion I had ex­ pressed, and will be propagated as such. Every effort to bring what has been thought closer to prevailing modes of (re)presen­ tation must assimilate what-is-to-be-thought to those (re)presen­ tations and thereby inevitably deform the matter. 2 This preamble is not the lament of a man misunderstood; it is rather the recognition of an almost insurmountable difficulty in making oneself understood. The first question in your letter reads: "How are we properly to understand your first experience of the Being-question in 1 [Translator's note. With regard to the translati~ of Denken, see below, p. 16, note 43. ] I [Translator's note. For the translation of VorsteUung by "(re)presentation," see below, p. 108, note 5. ] VORWORT Sehr geehrter Herr P.

• Aristotle
• English
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Immanuel Kant
• Kant
• Martin Heidegger
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• composition
• experience
• humanism
• logic
• nihilism
• phenomenology
• poetry
• time

• Louvain, Belgium

  William J. Richardson

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