What Is Called Thinking? (Harper Perennial Modern Thought) by Martin Heidegger (PDF)

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“For an acquaintance with the thought of Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? is as important as Being and Time. It is the only systematic presentation of the thinker’s late philosophy and . . . it is perhaps the most exciting of his books.”–Hannah Arendt

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Editorial Reviews: Review “As near a definitive statement of Heidegger’s new period as can be found.”–Jean M. Perreault From the Publisher “For an acquaintance with the thought of Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? is as important as Being and Time. It is the only systematic presentation of the thinker’s late philosophy and . . . it is perhaps the most exciting of his books.”–Hannah Arendt About the Author Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was born in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He studied at the University of Freiburg and became a professor at the University of Marburg in 1932. After publishing his his magnum opus, Being and Time (1927), he returned to Freiburg to assume the chair of philosophy upon Husserl’s retirement. Read more

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⭐MH has a lot to say about our post-modern, high-technology lives. These essays are not that difficult to read — once you understand these are translations from German, Heidegger does not know English and uses a lot of German colloquial phrases, and he’s a fanatic, in a good way, about the etymology of words that we throw around with careless ease. Approach it a bit like poetry, take a couple of days to get used to the pace and repetition, and you’re off to quite a thoughtful experience.

⭐I am working my way through this series of lectures the Professor gave in the 1950’s. His work in the area of metaphysics and his commitment to this philosophy is breathtaking. I am a novice with respect to philosophy and I read Prof. Heidegger’s thought humbly, recognizing his immense intellect and his treatment of philosophic thought. According to this books introduction, as a lecturer and teacher, Professor Heidegger naturally approaches this profession as a vocation. Academic freedom afforded him as a scholar and lecturer provides him full reign of thoughtful literature which he has studied and then interprets for us, his students. His efforts at making metaphysics applicable to ordinary life moves and inspires me. The connections he makes between notable thinkers is impassioned and reading through this work is something of a mosaic, as he maintains his life long focus, metaphysics, and relates it to the great thinkers he contemplates

⭐I read the essay version found in Basic Writings of Heidegger several years ago. But that version is nothing like the full text here of Heidegger’s seminar. It is one of his clearest reads and, in a reader who has some background in Greek philosophy, unfolds as a profound meditation on one’s engagement with thought.

⭐Though I haven’t read “Being and Time” in its entirety, I can confidently say Heidegger’s “What is Called Thinking?”, read without reference to the former, provides a lucid, albeit general, exposition of his ontology. It is, for a lack of better words, “thought-provoking.”

⭐This book is a departure from the common views of thinking and the opportunity to actually think from a new context and with new content. It has already altered the reality I share with the universe!

⭐I didn’t know what to expect from a collection of lectures from an ex-nazi on the topic of “think more, do less”– seemed ripe for hypocrisy. But I thought it was one of Heidegger’s best works. Insightful and thought-provoking. I am now leaning to the side of those who believe the nazism thing was a means of self-preservation. Not that that matters at all.

⭐I never thought I’d be reading a Martin Heidegger book and this is probably one of my favorite books. Who would I recommend this book to?…DEEP thinkers, people who tend to overthink, and overphilosophize, perhaps even those who suffer from Insomnia and can’t turn their thinking off easily. Anyone who fits these descriptions should relate to Heidegger’s writing!

⭐Thank you!!

⭐The title of the book under review, What is Called Thinking?, coming from the German Was heisst Denken?, could also have been translated as ‘What Calls Us to Think?’ or even ‘What Calls for Thinking?’.The short answer to this question is: that which is thought-provoking and, for the German philosophy professor Martin Heidegger, ‘most thought-provoking in our thought-provoking times is that we are still not thinking.’Readers of the book will find out that the professor includes himself in this ‘we’.At any rate, the book is a transcript of a lecture course Heidegger delivered in the nineteen fifties and is divided into two parts.The first part, in the main, is an appreciation of and confrontation with Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra—A Book for Everyone and Nobody and the Persian prophet’s cry that ‘The wasteland is growing. Woe to him who hides wastelands within!’, a sentence addressed to the superman, whose nature and difference with the last man is discussed at length in this section.Essentially, the bridge to the superman is one of renunciation, in the sense of the gentle releasement of being let and of letting be, and manifests in the deliverance from revenge, defined as the ‘ill will towards time and its “it was”‘ rooted in past suffering and, prey to that which has been and cannot be changed, gets frustrated by its incapacity to will backwards.Revenge and its most common manifestation, resentment, is essentially an attunement that is at odds with time that wills the world away.According to Heidegger, the beginning of the modern world began the moment when the type ‘man’ thought that he was running out of time.In learning thinking we are learning to deliver ourselves from revenge and to think our habits in a non reactive way.This is no easy task but unavoidable for the advancement of homo sapiens, who has been defined by the metaphysical tradition as the animal rationale, ‘the beast endowed with reason.’The second part of the book deals most of all with a fragment from the pre-platonic thinker Parmenides, illuminating in the process the phenomenon of thinking beyond the narrow confines of a shallow rationality content with calculating and representational ideation, as opposed to a more heart-and-head based approach to reality, but, I would add, not without heeding the words of German poet Friedrich Hölderlin’s ‘Good Advice’:’You’ve a head and a heart? Reveal only one of the two forThey’ll damn you doubly should you reveal both equally.’A knowledge of the Greek alphabet and Greek pronunciation is recommended by this reviewer to read through this section of the book, since Heidegger always goes back to the original tongue—most usually Greek or Latin—of the thinkers he brings to task and whose fruits he unravels in his immense bibliography.In conclusion, this book will appeal to profound natures who want to overcome the spirit of revenge which mires our world today and who want to reflect in a way that is deeper and more holistic than the norm.It sheds important lights on the modern world bible that is Thus Spoke Zarathustra and puts us to the test; are we willing to learn thinking and heed, in the sense of take seriously, that which provokes us to thought?

⭐This book will make you sweat, make you wonder if Heidegger finally lost his marbles, but most of all make you think. If you are willing to do a little mental bench-pressing, get out of your rut of how philosophy should be written, and meditatively contemplate what he is saying… then this mine is worth digging for the intellectual gold you will receive.

⭐Good book. Thank you

⭐Like all Heidegger’s works, difficult but repays effort.Proves, somewhat disturbingly (?), that you can be a (sort-o) Nazi and yet also a great philosopher at the same time.

⭐As described and arrived on time.

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