After Heidegger ?

by Gregory Fried

This unique volume collects more than 30 new essays by prominent scholars on what remains philosophically provocative in Heidegger’s thought. His writings continue to invite analysis and application — ut, particularly in the light of his political affiliations, they must also be critiqued. Philosophy today takes place after Heidegger in that his views should not be accepted naively, and there are new issues that he did not address — but also in that we continue to think in the wake of important questions that he raised.

The contributors to this volume ask questions such
- What does it mean to think “after” Heidegger?
- What is valuable in his early work on finite existence, and in his early and late phenomenology?
- What is the root of his political errors? Are there still elements in his thought that can yield helpful political insights?
- Should we emulate his turn toward “releasement”?
- Can he help us understand the postmodern condition?

Readers will find thought-provoking echoes and points of contention among these engaging and lively essays.

392 pages, Paperback

Published December 26, 2017

About the author

Gregory Fried, is chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. His books include Heidegger’s Polemos.

Reviews

[Zoonanism · Rating 4 out of 5]

The article by Peter Eli Gordon as with his other works was concise, with clear analysis of all that is worthwhile in the Magus's thought.

Simon Critchley in his piece asserts that in his fancy he imagines poetry as phenomenology, which I always imagined to be somehow the case in reverse: phenomenology is bad poetry.

All readers who have been annoyed or queerly thrilled by such phrases in the master's work as Welt weltet, Sprache spricht, Wesen west, can now label these crimes of reification following Daniel Dahlstrom "Ontological Animism". He aptly points out in his piece that in so far as being conceals itself any claims about it seem to ride less on phenomenological access than magic.