This collection of 31 essays gives students a strong start in understanding his thought from early themes and influences to Being and Time and his later, rarely examined later work. Topics include new research on the earliest of Heidegger's publications, his association with national socialism, his relation to Husserl in matter and method, his relationship with German idealism and his approach to Kant and Nietzsche, his takes on the Greeks and logic, his phenomenology and his philosophy of science. Proceeding chronologically, topics include approaches to Dasein and human mortality, categorization, sociality, realism and truth, hermeneutics, authenticity, temporality, "unconcealment," the history of being, the ontology of art, technology, language, the ethic of conditionality, the truth of being, iterability (by way of Derrida), contingency and pragmatism. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)