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Summary: A Dissenting opinion
Review: I am unable to agree with the other reviewers, probably because I am closer to being your 'average' reader. I am not a philosophy specialist. Also, Polt tells you good and plain that you should be concurrently reading "Being and Time", and using his book as a secondary text. Nope, I am not going to read Heidegger's translated prose.I also ordered Hubert Dreyfuss' "Being-in-the-World", and I am cheerfully cruising through it at one chapter per day, and I am getting a lot out of this reading experience. Polt for beginners? No way.
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Summary: A Dissenting opinion
Review: I am unable to agree with the other reviewers, probably because I am closer to being your 'average' reader. I am not a philosophy specialist. Also, Polt tells you good and plain that you should be concurrently reading "Being and Time", and using his book as a secondary text. Nope, I am not going to read Heidegger's translated prose. I also ordered Hubert Dreyfuss' "Being-in-the-World", and I am cheerfully cruising through it at one chapter per day, and I am getting a lot out of this reading experience. Polt for beginners? No way.
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Summary: The best introduction to Heidegger
Review: Polt's book, in my opinion, is the only secondary text that allows one to 'easily' access B&T (it also covers Heidegger's later thought, but, let's admit it, B&T is what made him one of the best). There are other commentaries out there (by Dreyfus, Mulhall, Gelven), however, none of them are as good as Polt in introducing Heidegger's project.
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Summary: A work of exceptional clarity
Review: Richard Polt has done the readers of Heidegger - especially those beginning their journey into Heidegger's work - an exemplary service in writing this book. It is not only exceptionally clear throughout, but is also unusual in discussing the totality of Heidegger's work, and not just <Being and Time>. If you know little or nothing about Heidegger's philosophy, Polt's book is the place to start. If you are well versed in Heidegger's writings, you might contemplate Polt's achievement: an accessible book that does not talk down to its readers.
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Summary: For analytically minded readers
Review: Richard Polt's little book joins a growing array of little books promising to "introduce" Heidegger and adds to a sadly growing list of "analytic-style" readings. One caveat: if one is able to read Heidegger on one's own, this book will do more harm than good. If one is not quite up to the challenge of reading Heidegger, this book will not help.
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Summary: For analytically minded readers
Review: The is the best introductionary book to Heidegger's philosophy I know. If this book is too long for you, the second best choice is Inwood's book, "Heidegger." The concepts of the intrepretations on Heidegger's ideas in Polt's book are very clear. Polt's entry on the "nothingness" is interesting, though I don't completely agree.
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Summary: Best introduction to Heidegger's philosophy in depth.
Review: The is the best introductionary book to Heidegger's philosophy I know. If this book is too long for you, the second best choice is Inwood's book, "Heidegger." The concepts of the intrepretations on Heidegger's ideas in Polt's book are very clear. Polt's entry on the "nothingness" is interesting, though I don't completely agree.
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