MartinHeidegger

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) spent most of his career teaching at theUniversity of Freiburg. He is best known as the author of

Being and Time

and

Discourse on Thinking.

His many other influential works include

Iden-tity and Dzfference, Introduction

Metaphysics, What Is Called Thinking,

and

Poetry, Language, Thought.

Joan Stambaugh, professor emerita of philosophy at Hunter College ofthe City University of New York, has translated a number of works

Heidegger, including

Being and Time, Identity and Dzfference,

and

On Timeand Being.

Her works include

The Finitude

Being, The Other Nietzsche,Thoughts on Heidegger,

and

The Formless Self:

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Translated by Joan Stambaugh

The University of Chicago Press

CONTENTS

Introduction

by Joan Stambaughvii

ONE

Metaphysics as History of Being

TWO

Sketches for a History of Being as Metaphysics

THREE

Recollection in Metaphysics

FOUR

Overcoming Metaphysics

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Martin Heidegger

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ranslated by Joan Stambaugh.p. cm.Originally published: New York

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