Questioning Martin Heidegger

Eric D. Meyer obtained his Ph.D. in English and American literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991. He is a former assistant professor and independent scholar who has spent the past twenty years studying Martin Heidegger’s “Overcoming Metaphysics.” Meyer is especially interested in the connections between Martin Heidegger’s post-Kehre texts, Zen Buddhism, and environmental philosophy. He is currently working on a study of sovereignty and subjectivity in Western philosophy entitled Maxima Moralia: The Sovereignty of Spirit and the Sacrificial Subject in Western Philosophy.

Questioning Martin Heidegger is a fresh look at an often overlooked text by Martin Heidegger: ‘Overcoming Metaphysics.’ Those seeking a positive approach to the major Heideggerian themes—the questions of being, of ‘the subject,’ of nihilism, of technology, and of the overcoming of metaphysics—will find much to consider and new avenues for thinking. The book also offers a new perspective on what’s called ‘The Heidegger Controversy’: Martin Heidegger’s involvement with German National Socialism.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note to the ReaderPretext: The Question of (Non)-BeingPreface: What Is Overcoming Metaphysics?Chapter I: The End of History, the End(s) of Man: Modernity, Post-Modernity, & Overcoming MetaphysicsChapter II: The Question of Being: Being & Thinking & The Thinking of BeingChapter III: The Question of the Subject: Who (…or What?…) is the Subject of Western Metaphysics?Chapter IV: The Question of Technology: Gestalt & Ge-StellChapter V: The New Epistemological Starting-Point: The Standpoint of Sentience (An Imaginary Interview With The Hypothetical Author)Chapter VI: Toward a New Ecological World-View: From Western Metaphysical Humanism to Sentient Biosphere EthicsPost-Script: Final Question(s): The Last God?Bibliography Index