Abstract
In the fifties and sixties the name of Martin Heidegger overshadowed the scene not only of German but also of Continental and Spanish-American philosophy. This very fact implies an enigma, at least to the Anglo-American world. What can account for the fascination with a thinker of Heidegger’s type? Certainly not the volume of his initial publications. Besides, his largest work, Sein und Zeit, was and will remain a torso. Yet it confronts its reader with a language and a style of thinking more demanding, if not actually forbidding, than most other philosophy, present or past. And while some of the circumstances surrounding Heidegger’s way of life were highly unconventional compared with those of the typical German university philosopher, neither his personality nor his appearence was sufficient to account for his impact on the academic and non-academic world.
Wege, nicht Werke.1
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Major Works
Die Kategorien- und Bedeutungslehre des Duns Scotus (1916); reprinted in Frühe Schriften (1972).
Sein und Zeit. Erste Hälfte (1927). Translation by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (1962), almost overconscientious in handling a nearly impossible task. Helpful notes, although relegating Heidegger’s own to an Appendix, glossary of German terms, index of English expressions and proper names missing in the German original.
Was ist Metaphysik? (1929); Nachwort 1944, Einleitung 1951. Translation by R. F. C. Hull and A. Crick in Werner Brock, Existence and Being (1949), of the Einleitung by Walter Kaufmann in his Existentialism from Dostoevski to Sartre (1957).
“Vom Wesen des Grundes” in Festschrift für E. Husserl (1929). Translation by Terrence Malick. Bilingual edition (1969).
Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik (1929). Translation by J. S. Churchill (1962).
Vom Wesen der Wahrheit (1943). Translation by R. F. C. Hull and A. Crick in Werner Brock, Existence and Being (1949).
Brief über den Humanismus (1949). Translation by W. Lohner in W. Barrett and H. Aiken ed., 20th Century Philosophy III (1962).
Holzwege (1950).
Einführung in die Metaphysik (1953). Translation by R. Manheim (1958).
Vortrage und Aufsätze (1954).
Was heisst Denken? (1954). Translation by F. D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray (1968).
Der Satz vom Grund (1957). Translation by K. Hoeller (1974).
Identität und Differenz (1957). Translation by K. Leyendecker and J. Stambough (1960 and 1969).
Unterwegs zur Sprache (1959). Translation by P. D. Hertz and J. Stambough (1971).
Nietzsche. Two volumes. For translations see K. Hoeller below.
Wegmarken (1967).
Zur Sache des Denkens (1969). Translation by Joan Stambough (1972).
For details about translations, especially of parts from larger works such as the Nietzsche volumes and of shorter pieces see Keith Hoeller, “Heidegger Bibliography of English Translations” JBSP 6 (1975), 206–208.
A comprehensive edition (Gesamtausgabe), quoted here as GA, was started in 1975 at Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt, of which 57 volumes have been announced. Thus far the following volumes have appeared (out of order): 1, 2, 5, 9, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 32, 39, 55.
GRENE, MARJORIE, Martin Heidegger. New York: Hillary, 1957. An informed, but not altogether sympathetic, brief interpretation. The connections with phenomenology are hardly mentioned.
KING, MAGDA, Heidegger’s Philosophy. New York: Dell 1964. A concise, well organized and judicious analysis in which the relation of Heidegger’s phenomenology to Husserl’s is discussed, though without historical background.
KOCKELMANS, JOSEPH J., Martin Heidegger, A First Introduction to His Philosophy. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1965. Unusually helpful as a first introduction to major aspects of Heidegger’s thought, especially in the earlier sections. While sketching Heidegger’s philosophical development, his phenomenology is not a major theme. No indices.
LANGAN, THOMAS, The Meaning of Heidegger. A Critical Study of an Existentialist Phenomenology. New York: Columbia, 1959. An attempt to show the unity of Heidegger’s work, presenting him chiefly as an existentialist. The phenomenological aspect is named but not developed.
MARX, WERNER, Heidegger und die Tradition (1961). Translation by Th. Kisiel and M. Greene (1971). An independent investigation of Heidegger’s attempt to overcome the tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Hegel and to show its incompleteness.
RICHARDSON, WILLIAM, J., Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1963. A monumental attempt, the largest at least in English, to trace the development from the Heidegger I of Sein und Zeit to the Heidegger II after the “turn” (Kehre) without abandoning their coherence. Heidegger’s prefatory letter (bilingual) in answer to the author’s questions adds special value to this work, as does the Appendix with verified information about Heidegger’s academic work and glossaries and bibliographies. While omitting Heidegger’s pre-phenomenological period, the book is particularly valuable for the analysis of the many smaller texts after the Kehre. Not always easy introductory reading because of its presuppositions and of a sustained attempt to duplicate Heidegger’s language in parallel English neologisms.
FAY, THOMAS, A., Heidegger: The Critique of Logic. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1977.
Non-English Monographs
Most recent texts, particularly helpful information also for biographical and bibliographical information.
BIEMEL, WALTER, Martin Heidegger in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1973.
COTTEN, JEAN-PIERRE, Heidegger. Paris: Le Seuil, 1974.
PöGGELER, OTTO, Der Denkweg Martin Heideggers. Pfullingen: Neske, 1963.
FEICK, HILDEGARD, Index zu Heideggers Sein und Zeit, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1963. An important research tool, covering also other texts and including key quotations.
MONGIS, HENRI, Heidegger et la critique de la notion de valeur. La destruction de la fondation métaphysique. Lettre-Préface de Martin Heidegger. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976.
Most Complete Bibliography
SASS, HANS-MARTIN, Heidegger-Bibliographie. Meisenheim: Anton Hain, 1968.
For later items see: Sass, H. M., Materialien zur Heidegger-Bibliographie 1917–1972. Meisenheim: Anton Hain, 1975; new edition in preparation.
IJSSELING, S., “Van en over Heidegger. Kroniek van de Heideggerliteratuur 1955–1965,” Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 25 (1965), 587–609;
IJSSELING, S., “Van en over Heidegger. Kroniek van de Heideggerliteratuur 1955–1965,” Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 32 (1970), 721–739.
LAPOINTE, FRANçOIS H., “Martin Heidegger: A Bibliographical Essay (1973–1978),” Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 34 (1980), 624–56.
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Spiegelberg, H. (1994). Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) as a Phenomenologist. In: The Phenomenological Movement. Phaenomenologica, vol 5/6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7491-3_8
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