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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
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Subject: Re: Heidegger
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Date: 24 Nov 91 03:05:42 GMT
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In article <1991Nov22.210528.10844@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> 
wallingf@pleiades.cps.msu.edu (Eugene Wallingford) writes:

>     What is a good place to start in reading Heidegger?  Allan Bloom's
>     discussion of his work was quite "impenetrable" at times to me,
>     but he continues to pop up as relevant in a number of contexts
>     important to AI.  It seems that I should read his work for myself.

The 1933 rectoral address, which contains his definitive statement of
political philosophy, is the only place to start reading Heidegger, and not
a bad place to finish your reading.  If you must go on, read "Sein und
Zeit" ("Being and Time").


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