Four Seminars (Studies in Continental Thought) Review

Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)Are you looking to buy Four Seminars (Studies in Continental Thought)? Here is the right place to find the great deals. we can offer discounts of up to 90% on Four Seminars (Studies in Continental Thought). Check out the link below:

>> Click Here to See Compare Prices and Get the Best Offers

Four Seminars (Studies in Continental Thought) ReviewFOUR SEMINARS seems rather fragmentary to me. The text was created by a few people who got together on a number of occasions. Things that are numbered have a lot of firsts on a single page, particularly on page 47, where the topology of being is imagined with three aspects:
Three terms which succeed one another and at the same time indicate three steps along the way of thinking: MEANING -- TRUTH -- PLACE . . .
First, truth. . . .
First, what does "meaning" signify? Meaning in BEING AND TIME is defined in terms of a project region, and projection is the accomplishment of Dasein, which means the ek-static instancy in the openness of being. By ek-sisting, Dasein includes meaning. The thinking that proceeds from BEING AND TIME, in that it gives up the word "meaning of being" in favor of "truth of being," henceforth emphasizes the openness of being itself, rather than the openness of Dasein in regard to this openness of being.
This signifies "the turn," in which thinking always more decisively turns to being as being.
The statements above are taken from 23 lines of text. I have omitted a Greek word for place and a German word for instancy. The ek- form of words pops up so frequently that I noticed a Greek instance on page 54:
What for Aristotle was a development [Auseinanderfolge] (the result of an emerging out of; ek-eis), becomes a succession [Aufeinanderfolge] (through the determination of the result as sequential) -- this due to the fact that the first idea is only an "occult quality," brought into disrepute by the Cartesians, though nevertheless rehabilitated in a certain sense by Leibniz.
This book does not have an index or translation of most Greek terms, but glossaries (pp. 113-118) of German-English and English-German correspondence allow those who are sure of a meaning in one language to check for which word this corresponds to in the other translation. The seminars in 1966, 1968, 1969, and 1973 took place in French, and the German translator, Curd Ochwadt, provides an Afterword with a poem by Martin Heidegger in German which is translated in a note on page 112. There is also an Afterword which appeared in COLLECTED EDITION, VOLUME 15 on Heidegger quoting Hegel's "A torn sock is better than a mended one" (p. 98). If this book did have an index, I'm sure it should contain:
Parmenides, Heraclitus, Aristotle, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Marx, Pindar, and Descartes for pages 1-9.
Hegel, Holderlin, Reinhold, Fichte, Schelling, Aristotle, Descartes, Luther, Galileo, William of Ockham, Husserl, Jean Beaufret, Kant, Heraclitus, Newton, Plato, Marx, Kant, Freud and Meister Eckhart for pages 10-34.
I spent a lot of time contemplating page 32, which contains such gems as:
This lived-body is something like the reach of the human body (last night, the moon was closer than the Louvre).
What "seeing" here means is in question, if one admits, despite a well-established French tradition, that cows never see trains pass by.
When Marx says, "Man produces himself, etc. . . . ," it means: "Man is a factory. Man produces himself as he produces his shoes." But what does "Production" mean for Hegel? By no means that man produces the Absolute. Production is the figure of reflection's accomplishment.
Truly complicated matters on September 6, 1969, include a list of seven questions by Roger Munier concerning technology that had been raised on September 11, 1966, a mere 35 years before a famous catastrophe in New York and at the Pentagon. Fifth question: "Will the rapid spreading of technological things not finally bring about an essential poverty, from which a turning around of the human to the truth of its essence becomes possible, even if by a detour of errancy?" (p. 45). Who knew?Four Seminars (Studies in Continental Thought) OverviewIn Four Seminars, Heidegger reviews the entire trajectory of his thoughtand offers unique perspectives on fundamental aspects of his work. First publishedin French in 1976, these seminars were translated into German with Heidegger'sapproval and reissued in 1986 as part of his Gesamtausgabe, volume 15. Topicsconsidered include the Greek understanding of presence, the ontological difference,the notion of system in German Idealism, the power of naming, the problem oftechnology, danger, and enowning. Heidegger's engagements with his philosophicalforebears -- Parmenides, Heraclitus, Kant, and Hegel -- continue in surprisingdialogues with his contemporaries -- Husserl, Marx, and Wittgenstein. Whileproviding important insights into how Heidegger conducted his lectures, theseseminars show him in his maturity reflecting back on his philosophical path. Animportant text for understanding contemporary philosophical debates, Four Seminarsprovides extraordinarily rich material for students and scholars ofHeidegger.

Want to learn more information about Four Seminars (Studies in Continental Thought)?

>> Click Here to See All Customer Reviews & Ratings Now