Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction

Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy: An Introduction
(Studies in Continental Thought)
by Daniela Vallega-Neu

# Paperback: 121 pages
# Publisher: Indiana University Press (May 2003)

In her concise introduction to Martin Heidegger's second most important work. Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning). Daniela Vallega-Neu provides guidance and structure to readers attempting to navigate this much-discussed but difficult text. Contributions reflects Heidegger's struggle to think at the edge of words and to bring to language what remains beyond the written or the spoken. In view of the centrality of Being and Time to Heidegger interpretation in recent decades, Vallega-Neu introduces Contributions first by reconsidering Being and Time in light of the transformative turn from prepositional thought to the poietic, performative character of thinking and language that marks the passage between the two works. She then discusses each of the "joinings" that structure the composition of Contributions. This graceful introduction provides students and scholars with a much-needed key for unlocking the thinking that underlies Heidegger's later writings. Short, clear, introduction to Heidegger's second most important but difficult work.
He sees in the distance, set for someone
Who died on the path... what does it mean?
from Hölderlin's Mnemosyne

also contributions itself here