ABOUT THIS BOOK

One of the most significant philosophical works of the twentieth century, Contributions to Philosophy is also one of the most difficult. Parvis Emad, in this collection of interpretive and critical essays, unravels and clarifies this challenging work with a rare depth and originality. In addition to grappling with other commentaries on Heidegger, he highlights Heidegger's "being-historical thinking" as thinking that sheds new light on theological, technological, and scientific interpretations of reality. At the crux of Emad's interpretation is his elucidation of the issue of "the turning" in Heidegger's thought and his "enactment" of Heidegger's thinking. He finds that only when Heidegger's work is enacted is his thinking truly revealed.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Parvis Emad, emeritus professor of philosophy at DePaul University, is coeditor of the journal Heidegger Studies and author of numerous works on Heidegger and phenomenology. In 1999 he translated Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) with Kenneth Maly, which received a Choice Magazine award for Outstanding Academic Title. Recently, he has translated Heidegger’s Mindfulness with Thomas Kalary.

REVIEWS

“Insightful and comprehensive, Parvis Emad’s essays not only present the interrelated themes in Contributions, but seek to enact the thinking undertaken there, to provide a path for others to follow. The work is thereby an investigation or inquiry in its own right, as well as an exceptional ‘commentary’ on Heidegger’s writings.”—Frank Schalow, University of New Orleans

“Emad’s study inaugurates a ‘dialogue’ with Heidegger’s text that seeks to open up this difficult and enigmatic work by focusing on its central issues and themes. It is invaluable for coming to grips with the text of Contributions.”—Stephen Doty, Regis University, Denver, Colorado

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Preface		000
Acknowledgments	000
Introduction	000
I
Translating Contributions to Philosophy as an Hermeneutic Responsibility	000
On AEcho,@ the First Part of Contributions to Philosophy	000
The Place of the Pre-socratics in APlaying-Forth,@ the Second Part of Contributions to Philosophy	000
ADe-cision,@ in Contributions to Philosophy and the Path to the Interpretation of Heraclitus Fragment 16	000
On the Last Part of Contributions to Philosophy, ABe-ing,@ its Liberating Ontology and the Hints at the Question of God	000
II
On the Inception of Being-historical Thinking and its Active Character, Mindfulness	000
Mastery of Be-ing and Coercive Force of Machination in Heidegger=s Contributions to Philosophy and Mindfulness and the Opening to his Nietzsche-Interpretation	000
Heidegger and Christianity: A Look at his Correspondence with Bernahrd Welte	000
Questioning Richardson=s AHeidegger I-Heidegger II@ Distinction and his Response in the Light of Contributions to Philosophy	000
Bibliography	000
Index	000

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