Heidegger Explained by Graham Harman

Heidegger Explained by Graham Harman

Martin Heidegger’s (1889-1976) influence has long been felt not just in philosophy, but also in such fields as art, architecture, and literary studies. Yet his difficult terminology has often scared away interested readers lacking an academic background in philosophy. In this new entry in the Ideas Explained series, author Graham Harman shows that Heidegger is actually one of the simplest and clearest of thinkers. His writings and analyses boil down to a single powerful idea: being is not presence. In any human relation with the world, our thinking and even our acting do not fully exhaust the world. Something more always withdraws from our grasp. As Harman shows, Heidegger understood that human beings are not lucid scientific observers staring at the world and describing it, but instead are thrown into a world where light is always mixed with shadow. The book concludes with a comprehensible discussion of the philosopher’s notoriously opaque concept of the fourfold.

Graham Harman is an Associate Provost for Research Administration and a Philosophy Professor at Cairo's American University. He was born in 1968 in Iowa City, Iowa, to hippie parents who met at a Rolling Stones concert in Chicago and had three boys. He earned his bachelor's degree from St. John's University's classical liberal arts department. Annapolis, MD: St. John's College, 1990. His Master's Degree was centered on Levinas and completed at Penn State in 1991 under the supervision of renowned philosopher Alphonso Lingis.

He finished his Ph.D. With a dissertation that became his first book, he graduated from DePaul University in Chicago in 1999. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as a Chicago sportswriter while completing his PhD studies. He started working at the American University of Cairo's Department of Philosophy in September 2000.

Egypt has become his home base, allowing him to travel to over 60 countries and write ten novels in less than a decade. He adores animals and became a vegetarian at the age of seven for ethical reasons.

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ISBN 13	9780812696172
ISBN 10	0812696174
Title	Heidegger Explained
Author	Graham Harman
Series	Ideas Explained
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Year published	2007-04-26
Number of pages	192
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