Martin Heidegger - Softcover

Steiner, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140055010 ISBN 13: 9780140055016

Publisher: Penguin, 1980

Synopsis

With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy and the rise of Nazism.

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About the Author

George Steiner has written a great many books during his long and distinguished career as a literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, translator, and educator. He was professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow of St Anne's College at Oxford University, and Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. 

From the Back Cover

Acquaintance with the work of Martin Heidegger is indispensable to an understanding of contemporary thought and culture. His work has had a profound influence on a number of disciplines, including theology, Sartrean existentialism, linguistics, Hellenic studies, the structuralist and hermeneutic schools of textual interpretation, literary theory, and literature itself.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140055010
• ISBN 13: 9780140055016
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192