Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected "Problems" of "Logic" (Studies in Continental Thought)

The Basic Questions of Philosophy is a groundbreaking lecture course by the renowned philosopher Martin Heidegger, first published in German in 1984.

This English translation offers a unique opportunity to delve into Heidegger's thought on the essence of truth and philosophy.

Through extensive drawings upon ancient Greek understanding of truth as aletheia and their determination of the beginning of philosophy as the disposition of wonder, Heidegger reasserts the question of truth as a genuine philosophical question.

This course provides an invaluable introduction to Heidegger's second magnum opus, Beiträge zur Philosophie, and sheds light on the pre-Socratic notion of truth as openness or unconcealment of being.

With its immense learning and elucidation of truth, this translation is a must-read for students of Heidegger's thought.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to explore the fundamental questions of philosophy with one of the greatest minds in the history of thought.