2020
First Published
85
Number of Pages
The second volume of Martin Heidegger's "Vortrage" (Gesamtausgabe Vol. 80.2) presents ten of his lectures held between 1935 and 1967 (including earlier elaborations) that have never been published before, as well as four texts that have hitherto only appeared outside the Gesamtausgabe. All of the lectures in this volume are now explicitly or implicitly within the horizon of event thinking, which was first fundamentally outlined in the "Beitrage zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)" (1936-1938). The question of art, poetry and language is a thematic focus of the volume. A further focus is the question of the nature of modern science and technology and their unification, which Heidegger, in reference to Norbert Wiener, calls "cybernetics". Modern biochemistry and genetics are also included in Heidegger's reflection.
Author
Martin Heidegger
Author · 91 books
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher whose work is perhaps most readily associated with phenomenology and existentialism, although his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification. His ideas have exerted a seminal influence on the development of contemporary European philosophy. They have also had an impact far beyond philosophy, for example in architectural theory (see e.g., Sharr 2007), literary criticism (see e.g., Ziarek 1989), theology (see e.g., Caputo 1993), psychotherapy (see e.g., Binswanger 1943/1964, Guignon 1993) and cognitive science (see e.g., Dreyfus 1992, 2008; Wheeler 2005; Kiverstein and Wheeler forthcoming).
