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Being and Time changed the course of philosophy. Richard Rorty, New York Times Book Review

Heideggers masterwork. The Economist

What is the meaning of being? This is the central question of Martin Heideggers profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. This first paperback edition of John Macquarrie and Edward Robinsons definitive translation also features a foreword by Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman.

A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticismas well as existentialism and much of postmodern thoughtBeing and Time forever changed the intellectual map of the modern world. As Richard Rorty wrote in the New York Times Book Review, You cannot read most of the important thinkers of recent times without taking Heideggers thought into account.

Author: Martin Heidegger
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 07/22/2008
Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
Pages: 608
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780061575594
Language: English