Heidegger's Later Philosophy

by Julian Young

Book Overview

Heidegger's later philosophy has often been regarded as a lapse into unintelligible mysticism. While not ignoring its deep and difficult complexities, Julian Young's book explains in simple and straightforward language just what it is all about. It examines Heidegger's identification of loss of 'the gods', the violence of technology, and humanity's 'homelessness' as symptoms of the destitution of modernity, and his notion that overcoming 'oblivion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521006090
• ISBN13: 9780521006095
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"