Heidegger: A Critical Introduction

* Preface to the English Edition* Introduction* 1. The "Facticity of Life"* Phenomenology and Hermeneutics.* The "Primordial Christian Facticity of Life"* Inceptions: Plato and Aristotle* 2. The "Meaning of Being"* The Analytic of "Dasein" or Existence as "Being-Toward-Death"* The "Ontological Difference"* The "Historicity" of "Dasein"* 3. The "History of Being"* Hitler and the "Other Inception"* "Hölderlin and the Germans"* Philosophy and Anti-Semitism* On the Structure of the "Event of Appropriation"* Art and the "Struggle between World and Earth"* "Overcoming Metaphysics"* Language as the "House of Being"* God and "The Gods"* 4. The "Essence of Technology"* Friedrich Nietzsche and Ernst Jünger* "Machination" and "Positionality"* Arrival in the "Fourfold"?* Reverberations* Biographical Facts in Historical Context* Bibliography for Further Study* Notes* Index*