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Heidegger by Michael J. Inwood
4.0
Inwood does an excellent job of presenting a very brief and concise analytic of Heidegger's infamously grandiloquent and labyrinthine philosophy, condensing the ideas Heidegger outlined in some 420 pages down to a easy 120 pages. This is a sort of Sparksnotes on Heidegger, and, thankfully, Inwood does not opt to provide much autobiographical detail of Heidegger's life, save for a quick summary of his life and background and a short chapter on his views and involvement regarding Nazism (he saw Nazism as its possibilities, not as what Nazism revealed itself to be in essence). It is not the place of this review to bolster the text herein with the reviewer's own summary of the philosophy discussed within the book. It is for the potential reader to explore within "Heidegger."
I have been reading this alongside Magda King's "A Guide To Heidegger's Being and Time." Magda gives the ideas presented in Being and Time a much more intimate and thorough examination. Inwood's text, though, is no less critical than King's. What King offers in an analytic of slightly less profundity Inwood presents to the quick, and it is so refreshing to review Heidegger's philosophy in much simpler terms. Also included is a chapter on Heidegger's conception of art and its function to Dasein which Heidegger wrote of in later works.
"Heidegger" is a perfect introduction for the unacquainted and/or those who quiver before the obvious complexity of Heidegger's work, as well as a wonderful companion to Heidegger's text.
I have been reading this alongside Magda King's "A Guide To Heidegger's Being and Time." Magda gives the ideas presented in Being and Time a much more intimate and thorough examination. Inwood's text, though, is no less critical than King's. What King offers in an analytic of slightly less profundity Inwood presents to the quick, and it is so refreshing to review Heidegger's philosophy in much simpler terms. Also included is a chapter on Heidegger's conception of art and its function to Dasein which Heidegger wrote of in later works.
"Heidegger" is a perfect introduction for the unacquainted and/or those who quiver before the obvious complexity of Heidegger's work, as well as a wonderful companion to Heidegger's text.