Introduction to Metaphysics

Author: (German) Heidegger, translated by Xiong Wei and Wang Qingjie
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Publishing Date: 2005-09-30
Features: This book is based on the course taught by the author at the University of Freiburg in the summer semester of 1935 under the same title, now thoroughly revised for publication. What was already said during the lecture is omitted in the published version. To achieve perfection, without altering the content, lengthy sentences have been simplified, the continuous text has been divided into multiple paragraphs, repetitive phrases have been removed, omissions have been corrected, and ambiguities have been clarified. The text in parentheses was added during the revision and polishing, while the text in brackets is a later annotation added over the years. To correctly grasp the meaning of the term "metaphysics" in the lecture title and its underlying origins, the reader must first fully grasp the overall context of this course. This book is one of Heidegger's important works. In this book, Heidegger takes the "question of being" as the fundamental theme of metaphysics and argues that metaphysics should inquire into "being" rather than "the being." For this purpose, he traces the grammar and etymology of "being" and discusses various philosophical schools from a historical perspective.