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Title: Introducing Heidegger (Foundations in Children's Ministry) by Jeff Collins, Howard Selina, Richard Appignanesi ISBN: 1-84046-003-2 Publisher: Totem Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a bad introduction, but lacking in some respects
Comment: While this is a decent introduction to one of the most notoriously difficult (yet influential) philosophers of the 20th century, as the title says, it is lacking in some respects. The biggest thing I noticed is that the author discusses Descartes and Husserl... but NEVER mentions Immanuel Kant, whose ideas on the Noumenon and Phenomenon were hugely influential on both Husserl and Heidegger. (It has been said, with some justification, that Kant *was* Continental philosophy, and everything else was a footnote to Kant). This is such a glaring oversight that it makes me question the scholarship in the remainder of the book.
The author also spends a good deal of time dealing with Heidegger's brief flirtation with Nazism... but neglects to mention that Heidegger soon fell out of favor with the Nazis and spent most of the Nazi years under a cloud of suspicion. (Perhaps Heidegger never disclaimed Nazism as loudly or as clearly as some would like ... but it's also worth noting that one of his major influences, Edmund Husserl, was Jewish... and of course there is his longtime friendship/love affair with Hannah Arendt, the author of *Eichmann in Jerusalem* and a major thinker in her own right).
Still, this is about as good an introduction to Heidegger as you are likely to find. The author manages to make his concepts of "Dasein" as clear as one can make such an abtruse concept. This will make explorations of Heidegger on your own a bit easier ... but it certainly won't serve as a replacement for same. Unfortunately, there's no way around studying Heidegger in his full glory... much as you may want to avoid the verbiage which was tangled in German and next-to-impossible in translation.
(On the bright side: after slogging through a few pages of Heidegger, Sartre looks like easy reading)
Rating: 5
Summary: Enormously Helpful
Comment: When I first became interested with Heidegger, my first impulse was to tackle the big one- "Being and Time." However, after reading just a few pages of this tome, I realized the material was way over my head. I turned to guides concerning Heidegger's work, and "Introducing Heidegger" was extremely enlightening. Although it is in "comic book" format, the writing, although concise, is full of helpful observations and anecdotes. The pictorial aids also accentuate what the writing describes.
Heidegger's concepts are laid out in full here- from his "secular theology" to his concept of simultaneous disclosure. His observations on art are revealed, also.
This introduction to Heidegger was invaluable to me. I can now recognize strains of Heidegger's thought in the work of writers much easier to read such as Foucault, Sartre, and Jaspers.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Reader from New York
Comment: INTRODUCING HEIDEGGER presents the reader with a lucid and thoughtfully rendered overview of Heidegger's overall corpus. However, this book does not represent a profound encounter with H's original texts by any stretch. Rather, it is a handy reference book, refresher, or study guide. The pictures are somewhat evocative and illuminating at times, but the book reminds me -- and this is NOT a slight-- of a well executed Cliff Notes edition. The main virtues of the book include reasonable clarification of terminology, consideration of H's predecessors and successors in philosophy and other fields, chronological presentation, very concise explication and the often helpful use of visual art. Still, the book is best for either "absolute beginners" or those who need a handy refresher/reference. It can also be used alongside original texts if existing commentaries seem too abstruse. In any case, it beats HEIDEGGER FOR BEGINNERS. But for those who want more depth and breadth from an introduction to Heidegger, I reccommend Macquarrie's HEIDEGGER AND CHRISTIANITY and, secondarilly, George Steiner's HEIDEGGER. These are both books (particularly Macquarrie's) of greater profundity than the INTRODUCTION, yet they are concise and accessible. In sum, INTRODUCING HEIDEGGER is a fairly reliable short study guide in which some of philosophy's most difficult terms and concepts are cleanly introduced, if not deeply explored.
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Title: Introducing Nietzsche by Laurence Gane, Kitty Chan, Richard Appignanest ISBN: 184046075X Publisher: Totem Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Introducing Kant by Christopher Want, Andrezey Klimowski, Richard Appignanesi ISBN: 1840460814 Publisher: Totem Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Introducing Foucault, 2nd Edition by Chris Horrocks, Zoran Jevtic ISBN: 1840460865 Publisher: Totem Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Introducing Sartre (Introducing (Icon)) by Philip Malcolm Waller Thody, Howard Read, Richard Appignanesi ISBN: 1840460075 Publisher: Totem Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Introducing Hegel, 2nd Edition by Lloyd Spencer, Andrzej Krauze ISBN: 184046111X Publisher: Totem Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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