The Young Heidegger: Rumor of the Hidden King
ISBN: 9780253113931
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Indiana University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Religion; Philosophy;

". . . 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

" . . . a readable, interesting, and first-rate book." --John D. Caputo

A startling new reading of Martin Heidegger's early thought leading up to Being and Time (1927) and its subsequent development in his later writings.


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).

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