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On My Own Publications

By Martin Heidegger & Scott M. Campbell
On My Own Publications by Martin Heidegger & Scott M. Campbell digital book - Fable

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Throughout his career, Martin Heidegger read and reinterpreted his own writings. This was part of the entirely self-critical orientation of the journey in the landscape of thought.

On My Own Publications is the first English-language translation of volume 82 of Heidegger's Complete Works. Started a decade after Being and Time (1927), much of this volume presents running commentary, interpretations, and insights of many of Heidegger's fundamental works, illuminating the philosopher's notes and personal thoughts on his own works and offering a rare look inside the mind of an influential thinker.

Focusing on several works including What Is Metaphysics? (1929), The Origin of the Work of Art (1935-36), and The Letter on Humanism (1946), On My Own Publications presents Heidegger reading, interpreting, and confronting some of his own most important and influential publications.

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“The elucidation within the footnotes presented in this book are as interesting as the B&T text itself. I knew that others who had read B&T saw it differently from me and would extrapolate interpretations that weren’t obvious to me from the text itself, that’s because I had not read these footnotes. Heidegger settles scores at least against existentialists and changes the nature of Dasein itself as he re-evaluates what he said from what he claims an author leaves unsaid as they write. That’s a good thing, but the nature of the text gets re-interpreted through remembrance-in the event. That reminds me, Heidegger’s turn from Nietzsche is apparent within some of these footnotes. Within B&T itself it’s easy to see the Nazi weird-view of Heidegger and within this book of his footnotes Heidegger cites that it is the Volk and race that makes the ‘authentic self’ giving Dasein the essence of the projection of the care. His naziness is on display. I always make a comment on how Heidegger was really and truly an unrepentant Nazi, because despite that I still love reading his writings since there is a depth to his writings that provides a ground for a groundless world. Not only did Heidegger redefine Dasein such that it had to be ‘man’ with his commentaries from this book, he also took away the grounding he thought he provided with the essence for Being. In B&T, Dasein could have been anything that takes a stand on its own understanding, within these commentaries he makes Dasein man. This book of footnotes reads easier than B&T and all the main concepts pop-up within the footnotes. Heidegger is difficult reading but these footnotes weren’t. When he talks about poetry and art and connects that back to Being, he seems full-of-shit to me, all but that final section was worth reading. After the first time I read B&T, I would see comments from other writers about ‘the clearing’, or ‘Aletheia’ or Dasein is man, or being is groundless, and was dumbfounded because it was just an itty-bitty part of the book or the concepts had not been fleshed out in B&T. Now, I know what happened. Those commentators had read these footnotes or Heidegger’s later works and took Heidegger differently from what was originally presented within B&T. This series of footnotes flows as an easily digestible book, and the esoteric jargon that Heidegger uses makes more sense than it did in B&T.”

About Martin Heidegger

Scott M. Campbell is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY. He is the author of The Early Heidegger's Philosophy of Life, and he translated one of Heidegger's early lecture courses, GA 58, as Basic Problems of Phenomenology: Winter Semester 1919/1920.

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