Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger, ISBN-13: 978-0060937287

Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger, ISBN-13: 978-0060937287

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• Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (January 1, 2001)
  
• Language: ‎ English
• ‎229 pages
• ISBN-10: 0060937289 ‎ 
• ISBN-13: 978-0060937287 ‎ 

Poetry, Language, Thought collects Martin Heidegger’s pivotal writings on art, its role in human life and culture, and its relationship to thinking and truth. Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opens up appreciation of Heidegger beyond the study of philosophy to the reaches of poetry and our fundamental relationship to the world. Featuring “The Origin of the Work of Art,” a milestone in Heidegger’s canon, this enduring volume provides potent, accessible entry to one of the most brilliant thinkers of modern times.

Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opened up appreciation of Martin Heidegger beyond the confines of philosophy to the reaches of poetry. In Heidegger’s thinking, poetry is not a mere amusement or form of culture but a force that opens up the realm of truth and brings man to the measure of his being and his world.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
References
I. The Thinker As Poet
II. The Origin of the Work of Art
III. What Are Poets For?
IV. Building Dwelling Thinking
V. The Thing
VI. Language
VII. “. . . Poetically Man Dwells . . .’

Born in southern Germany, Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) taught philosophy at the University of Freiburg and the University of Marburg. His published works include: Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (1929); An Introduction to Metaphysics (1935); Discourse on Thinking (1959); On the Way to Language (1959); Poetry, Language, Thought (1971). His best-known work is Being and Time (1927).

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