Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy

In her consise introduction to Contributions to Philosophy, Vallega-Neu provides guidance and structure to readers attempting to navigate this much-discussed but difficult text. In view of the centrality of Being and Time to Heidegger interpretation in recent decades, the author introduces Contributions first by reconsidering Being and Time in light of the transformative turn from prepositional thought to the poietic, performative character of thinking and language that markes the passage between the two works. She then discusses each of the "joinings" that structure the composition of Contributions. Daniela Vallega-Neu is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Stanislaus. She is the author of Die Notwendigkeit der Grundung im Zeitalter der Dekonstruction and co-editor of Companion to Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy (Indiana University Press).