Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity (Studies in Continental Thought)

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Summary: FASCINATING AND CHALLENGING
Review: This translation of Heidegger's lectures at Freiburg during the summer of 1923 represents an important event in English-speaking Heidegger scholarship. Van Buren has done a masterful job, and rendered us all a real service.

This lecture contains some of the most interesting material from Heidegger's entire corpus. His historical analysis of hermeneutics and of the concept of "man" in the Western philosophical tradition are only the beginning - the whole lecture is simply riveting. Anyone with an interest in Heidegger needs to own this book. The same goes for those who have only heard of Heidegger from the blithering obscurantists who pass themselves off as "scholars." Here is Heidegger addressing issues of real philosophical import with insight and lucidity. A fascinating and challenging piece!