Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit

by Bret W. Davis

The problem of the will has long been viewed as central to Heidegger's later thought. In the first book to focus on this problem, Bret W. Davis clarifies key issues from the philosopher's later period--particularly his critique of the culmination of the history of metaphysics in the technological "will to will" and the possibility of Gelassenheit or "releasement" from this willful way of being in the world--but also shows that the question...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810120356
• ISBN13: 9780810120358
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 9.0"