Young Heidegger

JOHN VAN BUREN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He is co-editor of Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought and The Early Heidegger: New Texts and translator of Martin Heidegger, Ontology (Hermeneutics of Facticity).

"... a readable, interesting, and first-rate book." John D. Caputo "... a major contribution to Heidegger scholarship ..." Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences "Van Buren's portrayal of these formative years is striking and vital to all future Heidegger scholarship." Christian Century "Van Buren presents a clear and cogent argument for the theory that Martin Heidegger's mature thought, epitomized in Being and Time, actually was a return to his youthful theory and concerns... Van Buren's ability to present a rounded discussion while using Heidegger's own technical vocabulary is highly commendable." Library Journal " ... here at last is a work on the philosopher that is of fundamental philosophical-historical import. Van Buren's book is both interesting and well written ..." Choice

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsI. The Matter of Heidegger's Thinking1 Heidegger's Autobiographies2 Figuring the Matter OutII. The Student Years3 Curricula Vitae4 Ontologic5 Heterology6 Mysticism, Ontotheology, AntimodernismIII. The End of Philosophy7 Demythologizing Metaphysics8 Primal Christianity9 Husserl10 AristotleIV. New Beginnings11 The Questionableness of Being12 It Worlds for Me13 Ereignis14 The Mystery of All Life15 Indications of Ethics16 Reinscribing HeideggerNotesIndex