Basic Writings: Martin Heidegger

Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. Basic Writings offers a full range of this profound and controversial thinker’s writings in one volume, including:

• • The Origin of the Work of Art
  • The introduction to Being and Time
  • What Is Metaphysics?
  • Letter on Humanism
  • The Question Concerning Technology
  • The Way to Language
  • The End of Philosophy

Featuring a foreword by Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman, this essential collection provides readers with a concise introduction to the groundbreaking philosophy of this brilliant and essential thinker.