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Country Germany Publication date 1953 | 4/5 Goodreads Language German Originally published 1953 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title Einführung in die Metaphysik Publisher 1984: Yale University Press
2000: Yale University Press
2014: Yale University Press (revised and expanded ed.) Published in English 1984 (Manheim)
2000 (Fried & Polt)
2014 (Fried & Polt, revised and expanded ed.) Preceded by Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics Followed by Contributions to Philosophy Translators Ralph Manheim, Richard Polt Subjects Ontology, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology Similar Martin Heidegger books, Theoretical philosophy books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Introduction to Metaphysics (German: Einführung in die Metaphysik) is a book by Martin Heidegger, the published version of a lecture course he gave in the summer of 1935 at the University of Freiburg. The content of these lectures was not published in Germany until 1953. Heidegger commended this book along with his work Being and Time (1927), as summarising his views at that time (1953) on ontology. The work, in which Heidegger refers to the "inner truth and greatness" of National Socialism, has been widely regarded as fascist in character.
Reception
Introduction to Metaphysics is famous for Heidegger's powerful reinterpretation of Greek thought and infamous for his acknowledgement of the Nazi Party. Julian Young writes that it is a work which "even those on the whole sympathetic to Heidegger have generally taken to be indelibly fascist in character." Nevertheless, the work has also been seen as being critical of Nazism for being insufficiently radical and suffering from the same spiritual impoverishment as the Soviet Union and the United States.