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>From: ron@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Ron McClamrock)
Subject: Re: Heidegger (really Husserl)
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Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1991 16:39:09 GMT

rcj@caen.engin.umich.edu (Rod Johnson) writes:

 > [Lots of reasonable advice on reading Husserl and Heidegger]

To add a note or two:

The Boyce-Gibson translation of IDEAS is a mess, and there's now a
more recent one by Fred Kersten.  It's very different; lots of
folks like it better.  And as for Heidegger's own work, BASIC
PROBLEMS OF PHENOMENOLOGY (Indiana) is about as readable as it
gets, in my view.  The introduction is especially reasonable; it's
what I assign in "Intro to Phenomenology" to get a first pass at
Heidegger.

There's also a new book by Michael Hammond et al called
UNDERSTANDING PHENOMENOLOGY (Blackwell) which is quite clear and
readable. There's more focus on Merleau-Ponty than Heidegger, but
personally, I like that.  And Beth Preston's review (forcoming in
MINDS AND MACHINES) of Dreyfus' new book on Heidegger
(BEING-IN-THE-WORLD) is a nice short look at what some of this
stuff might be about.


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Ron McClamrock             University of Chicago
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