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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 sch…
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Martin Heidegger

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    25 September 1991

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Summary

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.

“It would be hard to imagine a better introduction to the work of philosopher Martin Heidegger.“—George Kateb, The New Republic

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780226772325
ISBN-10:0226772322
Author:George Steiner
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:University of Chicago Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:25 September 1991
Weight:282g
Dimensions:13mm x 143mm x 212mm
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Martin Heidegger by George Steiner - ISBN: 9780226772325
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Critics Review

“Steiner’s short book, in its generosity of feeling and range of reference, is a continuous pleasure to read.”
–P. F. Strawson “New York Review of Books”

About The Author

George Steiner

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.

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