To: fellow Heidegger scholars
From: Richard Polt and Gregory Fried
Re: request for comments on possible _Intro. to Metaphysics_
companion volume
Dear colleagues,
We are in the process of producing a new translation of
Heidegger's _Introduction to Metaphysics_ for Yale University
Press. While the existing Ralph Manheim translation is
admirably readable, our version will be closer to the German.
We will also take into account textual discoveries made since
the 1950s (thus, some parentheses in the 1953 text must be
changed to brackets, since they contain additions made after
the 1935 lecture course). Finally, we will follow the most
important conventions for Heidegger translations as they have
developed since Manheim's work (for example, we are rendering
_das Seiende_ as "beings" rather than "essents").
We are now developing a proposal for a companion volume to our
translation, and we are writing to ask you for your thoughts
on such a volume. We'd like to know whether you think such a
book would be attractive, and what we might do to make it more
useful to you as scholars and teachers. As we envision it,
the volume would include:
-- An overview of IM for readers who are new to Heidegger, in
the context of Heidegger's thought as a whole
-- A detailed index and glossary for our translation (we may
not be able to include these in the translation itself for
copyright reasons)
-- Extended notes on passages that call for them
-- Essays by a range of both established and younger scholars
on issues in IM.
The essays could treat something like the following range of
topics, all primarily in relation to IM:
-- Being and Nothing
-- Being and appearance
-- Polis and politics
-- Logos and logic
-- Physis, physics, and metaphysics
-- Polemos
-- Power
-- Tragedy
-- Heidegger's etymological and linguistic claims in relation
to contemporary linguistics
We would like to hear whether you would find such a book
appealing. We'd also appreciate suggestions on how to enhance
this project. We specifically want to know whether this
volume, combined with a new, more accurate translation of the
_Introduction_ itself, would be a text that you might assign
in courses.
We would be particularly grateful if those of you who would
consider using these books in your teaching would give
permission to be contacted by Yale as the press considers our
proposal for the companion volume. If you are willing to take
a look at the details of our proposal and give Yale your
opinion of it, please let us know.
As there are many who study and teach Heidegger but do not
subscribe to a Heidegger list, we hope you will pass on this
announcement to any non-wired colleagues whom it might
interest.
Your reactions and responses may either be posted to this list
or sent to us directly:
Richard Polt
Dept. of Philosophy, Xavier University
3800 Victory Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45207-4443
polt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Gregory Fried
110 Irving St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
cgfried@xxxxxx
Thank you!
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From: Richard Polt and Gregory Fried
Re: request for comments on possible _Intro. to Metaphysics_
companion volume
Dear colleagues,
We are in the process of producing a new translation of
Heidegger's _Introduction to Metaphysics_ for Yale University
Press. While the existing Ralph Manheim translation is
admirably readable, our version will be closer to the German.
We will also take into account textual discoveries made since
the 1950s (thus, some parentheses in the 1953 text must be
changed to brackets, since they contain additions made after
the 1935 lecture course). Finally, we will follow the most
important conventions for Heidegger translations as they have
developed since Manheim's work (for example, we are rendering
_das Seiende_ as "beings" rather than "essents").
We are now developing a proposal for a companion volume to our
translation, and we are writing to ask you for your thoughts
on such a volume. We'd like to know whether you think such a
book would be attractive, and what we might do to make it more
useful to you as scholars and teachers. As we envision it,
the volume would include:
-- An overview of IM for readers who are new to Heidegger, in
the context of Heidegger's thought as a whole
-- A detailed index and glossary for our translation (we may
not be able to include these in the translation itself for
copyright reasons)
-- Extended notes on passages that call for them
-- Essays by a range of both established and younger scholars
on issues in IM.
The essays could treat something like the following range of
topics, all primarily in relation to IM:
-- Being and Nothing
-- Being and appearance
-- Polis and politics
-- Logos and logic
-- Physis, physics, and metaphysics
-- Polemos
-- Power
-- Tragedy
-- Heidegger's etymological and linguistic claims in relation
to contemporary linguistics
We would like to hear whether you would find such a book
appealing. We'd also appreciate suggestions on how to enhance
this project. We specifically want to know whether this
volume, combined with a new, more accurate translation of the
_Introduction_ itself, would be a text that you might assign
in courses.
We would be particularly grateful if those of you who would
consider using these books in your teaching would give
permission to be contacted by Yale as the press considers our
proposal for the companion volume. If you are willing to take
a look at the details of our proposal and give Yale your
opinion of it, please let us know.
As there are many who study and teach Heidegger but do not
subscribe to a Heidegger list, we hope you will pass on this
announcement to any non-wired colleagues whom it might
interest.
Your reactions and responses may either be posted to this list
or sent to us directly:
Richard Polt
Dept. of Philosophy, Xavier University
3800 Victory Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45207-4443
polt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Gregory Fried
110 Irving St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
cgfried@xxxxxx
Thank you!
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