Jason Powell has a PhD in philosophy and is the author of Jacques Derrida: A Biography and Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy. He has served with the British Army in Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo and now works as a freelance writer.

"...for the patient and charitable student who is perhaps already familiar with and sympathetic toward Heidegger's difficult style, or a student who is willing and able to take the "leap," Powell's introduction provides an excellent example of the esoteric and mystical reading of Heidegger's philosophy...Recommended.  Elite upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty." -A. N. Bunch, CHOICE, April 2008, Vol. 45, No. 8

• 1. Introduction2. Being and Time and the Self as a Living Experience3. The Rhetorical Originality of Contributions to Philosophy4. Gods Showing the Way of Life: Hölderlin5. The Self as the Ultimate Theme of Philosophy: Nietzsche6. Contributions: The Intensification of the Sense of Life 7. Contributions: The Struggle to Speak of Life8. Conclusion

Jason Powell has a PhD in philosophy and is the author of Jacques Derrida: A Biography and Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy. He has served with the British Army in Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo and now works as a freelance writer.

"...for the patient and charitable student who is perhaps already familiar with and sympathetic toward Heidegger's difficult style, or a student who is willing and able to take the "leap," Powell's introduction provides an excellent example of the esoteric and mystical reading of Heidegger's philosophy...Recommended.  Elite upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty." -A. N. Bunch, CHOICE, April 2008, Vol. 45, No. 8

• 1. Introduction2. Being and Time and the Self as a Living Experience3. The Rhetorical Originality of Contributions to Philosophy4. Gods Showing the Way of Life: Hölderlin5. The Self as the Ultimate Theme of Philosophy: Nietzsche6. Contributions: The Intensification of the Sense of Life 7. Contributions: The Struggle to Speak of Life8. Conclusion