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Thinking After Heidegger

ISBN: 978-0-745-61623-0

October 2002

Polity

232 pages

Description
In Thinking After Heidegger, David Wood takes up the challenge posed by Heidegger - that after the end of philosophy we need to learn to think. But what if we read Heidegger with the same respectful irreverence that he brought to reading the Greeks, Kant, Hegel, Husserl and the others? For Wood, it is Derrida's engagements with Heidegger that set the standard here – enacting a repetition through transformation and displacement. But Wood is not content to crown the new king. Instead he sets up a many-sided conversation between Heidegger, Hegel, Adorno, Nietzsche, Blanchot, Kierkegaard, Derrida and others. Derrida and deconstruction are first critically addressed and then drawn into the fundamental project of philosophical renewal, or renewal as philosophy.

The book begins by rewriting Heidegger's inaugural lecture, 'What is Metaphysics?' and ends with an extended analysis of the performativity of his extraordinary Beitrage. Thinking after Heidegger will be a valuable text for scholars and students of contemporary philosophy, literature and cultural studies.

About the Author
David Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and an Honorary Professor at Warwick. He is the author of Philosophy at the Limit and The Deconstruction of Time.
Features

  • A highly original reinterpretation of Heidegger's philosophy.

  • Examines a wide range of Heidegger's writings.

  • Engages with the relationship between Heidegger, Hegel, Adorno, Nietzsche, Blanchot, Kierkegaard, and others.

  • Specifically, draws on the work of Derrida to reappraise Heidegger's philosophical contribution.