دانلود کتاب On Time and Being

The German book, of which this is a translation, is called “Zur Sache des Denkens“. It is emphatically not a translation of Being and Time, (Sein und Zeit) which is generally thought of as Heidegger’s masterwork. This book reflects Heidegger’s late turn to a revised version of his metaphysics and the introduction of a new notion of an event of appropriation to flesh out his metaphysical ideas. This translation contains a lecture “Time and Being” which explains the further development of Heidegger’s thinking and a lecture called The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking. These map out the change in thought from Sein und Zeit after the “end of philosophy” as he called it. There is also a summary of the six seminars he gave on the thinking behind that lecture, and his outline of his own intellectual and philosophical development. All this, is of high value to anyone trying to comprehend his late thought.

With respect to his or her opinions, an earlier reviewer suggests that “this translation incorporates interpretive comments into the text without any indication that they are not Heidegger’s words. I was simply floored when I went to the original to check a passage that seemed fishy in the translation and found that there are whole sentences in the “translation” that Heidegger did not write. This is simply inexcusable and renders the translation almost useless. If I ever had any curiosity to look at her translation of Being and Time, I certainly do not now. I hope that a competent scholar publishes a real translation of this important work someday.”

I comment only that this volume is not a translation of “Sein und Zeit” but a new direction in Heidegger’s late thought. Joan Stambaugh’s translation of that book is generally considered to be excellent given the difficulty of the subject matter. I note it is difficult even for a well prepared native German speaker. If you are genuinely interested in the development of Heidegger’s late thought after Sein und Zeit, then I recommend this to you.