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Selected Secondary Literature on Heidegger

Professor William Blattner

Here I provide a list of selected pieces of secondary literature on topics, principally related to Being and Time. The list is highly incomplete, has not been updated in a while, and is primarily intended for undergraduate philosophy majors doing their first course on Heidegger. The list is organized by topic.

The Anyone (das Man, Macquarrie & Robinson: the “They”)

Olafson, Frederick. "Heidegger à la Wittgenstein or 'Coping' with Professor Dreyfus." Inquiry 37 (1994): 45-64.

Carman, Taylor. "On Being Social: A Reply to Olafson." Inquiry 37 (1994): 203-223.

Dreyfus, Hubert L. "Interpreting Heidegger on Das Man." Inquiry 38 (1996): 423-430.

Schatzki, Theodore R. "The Nature of Social Reality." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (1988): 239-260.

Natural Science, the Human Studies, and Hermeneutics

Rouse, Joseph. "Science and the Theoretical 'Discovery' of the Present-at-Hand." In Descriptions, edited by Don Ihde and Hugh J. Silverman, 200-210. Albany: SUNY Press, 1985.

Also: Rouse, Joseph. Knowledge and Power. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Hoy, David Couzens. "Heidegger and the Hermeneutic Turn." In The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, edited by Charles B. Guignon, 170-194. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Dreyfus, Hubert L. "Holism and Hermeneutics." The Review of Metaphysics 34 (1980): 3-23.

Okrent, Mark. "Hermeneutics, Transcendental Philosophy, and Social Science." Inquiry 27 (1984): 23-49.

The Nature of Truth

Wrathall, Mark A. "Heidegger and Truth as Correspondence." International Journal of Philosophical Studies 7, no. 1 (1999): 69-88.

Anxiety and Death

Fell, Joseph P. "The Familiar and the Strange:  The Limits of Praxis in the Early Heidegger." In Heidegger: A Critical Reader, edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Harrison Hall, 65-80. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992.

Blattner, William. "The Concept of Death in Being and Time." Man and World 27 (1994): 49-70.

Heidegger, Nazism, Politics

Sluga, Hans D. Heidegger's Crisis : Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Thomson, Iain. "Heidegger and the Politics of the University." Journal of the History of Philosophy 41, no. 4 (2003): 515-542.

Thomson, Iain. "Heidegger and National Socialism." In A Companion to Heidegger, edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall, pp. 32-48. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2005.

What is Dasein?

Haugeland, John. "Dasein's Disclosedness." In Heidegger:  A Critical Reader, edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Harrison Hall, 27-44. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992.

— "Heidegger on Being a Person." Noûs 16 (1982): 15-26.

Blattner, William . "Existence and Self-Understanding in Being and Time." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (1996): 97-110.

Authenticity and Resoluteness

Vogel, Lawrence. The Fragile "We": Ethical Implications of Heidegger's "Being and Time". Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1994. 

Dreyfus, Hubert L. and Jane Rubin. Appendix to Being-in-the-World. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1991.

Thomson, Iain. "Deconstructing the Hero." In Comics as Philosophy, edited by Jeff McLaughlin, pp. 100-129. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

Temporality

Blattner, William. "Temporality." In A Companion to Heidegger, edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall, pp. 311-324. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2005.

Helpful More General Books

Mongraphs

Carman, Taylor. Heidegger's Analytic. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Dreyfus, Hubert L. Being-in-the-World. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1991.

Guignon, Charles. Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1983.

Okrent, Mark. Heidegger's Pragmatism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Collections

Guignon, Charles, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Dreyfus, Hubert L. and Wrathall, Mark, eds. A Companion to Heidegger. London: Blackwell Publsihers, 2005.

Biographies:

Safranski, Rüdiger. Martin Heidegger : Between Good and Evil. Translated by Ewald Osers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Ott, Hugo. Martin Hiedegger. Translated by Allan Blunden. New York: Basic Books, 1993.


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