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>From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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Subject: Re: Heidegger
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Date: 27 Nov 91 19:43:50 GMT
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keim@nic.belwue.de (Frank Keim) wrote:
> Heidegger is a wide field. First, you have to formulate an interest for a 
> special theme in Heidegger before you can continue, this is my experience.
> In german exists a good introduction to Heidegger, the rororo-biographie.
> From there you can find further literature. The mainbook of Heidegger is
> "Sein und Zeit" (1927), but should I recommend you, to read it first?
> To make a long story short, you must formulate a dedicated topic und then
> you can search for the text you are interested. 

Sensible advice for dealing with someone whose collected works run to 83
volumes...

I doubt if Heidegger himself saw "Being and Time" as his "main book"; he
rejected it even faster than Wittgenstein did the "Tractatus".  Of his
later stuff, the volume of essays "Existence and Being" are quite readable,
much more so than "Being and Time".  So is "Poetry, Language, Thought", but
that's hardly a major work.

There's a recently translated essay by a French philosopher - I forget who,
though it was somebody fairly well-known - about Heidegger and Nazism.
>From a brief flip-through it looked quite sensible, neither excusing his
fascist allegiances nor saying that they were so deeply enmeshed in his
philosophy as to invalidate it a priori.

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