Time and Trauma - Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties

Offering new insights into Heidegger's thought based on recently published texts, Richard Polt, one of the most respected contemporary commentators on Heidegger, presents a critical perspective that draws creatively on Heidegger's thinking and makes original proposals for understanding human existence.

List of contents

Introduction / 1. Into the Happening of Being / 2. Passing Through the Political / 3. Recovering Politics / 4. Toward Traumatic Ontology / Appendix: Propositions on Emergency / Bibliography / Index

About the author

Richard Polt is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University. With Gregory Fried he has translated Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics and Being and Truth, and edited A Companion to Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics" and Nature, History, State: 1933-1934.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Polt
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2019
• EAN: 9781786610492
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-049-2
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 229 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 585 g
• Series: New Heidegger Research
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism