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Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) (Studies in Continental Thought): Martin Heidegger, Parvis Emad Emad, Kenneth Maly,

Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), written in 1936-38 and first published in 1989, is Heidegger's most ground-breaking work after the publication of Time and Being in 1927. If Time and Being is perceived as undermining modern metaphysics, Contributions undertakes to reshape the very project of thinking. In this unusual work, thinking becomes a dimension of time and space, and a historical unfolding of being occurs.

Summary: Preliminary concerns

I have only begun to study this book, but I bring to it 35 years of living with awareness of Heidegger's work and struggling with many of his texts. So far it seems to me that it is a struggle to do what he confessed he could not do--overcome metaphysics.

My German is so primitive that I could never read this text in its original language. I see that saves me from feeling a need to compete with this translation. I am thankful for small blessings.

The unique vocabulary by Emad and Maly means I must not depend on solitary words, even while H is at such pains to set them in context. As with Sein und Zeit which I first read about 30 years ago and then reread 5 years ago, I can only resort to a developing appreciation of this volume. It is hard work for me.

Yet I should not want to die without even a meager acquaintance, as mine is, with our age's version of Aristotle. Even he was libeled for political incompetence. Opportunities such as are offered in this volume do not come around everyday.

Upon beginning the reading I would have been satisfied to call what I found a Heidegger "worldview;" that is, avoidance of philosophy as erudition. Yet early on H makes clear it is philosophy he is doing, because philosophy, contrary to worldview, calls itself into question. That thread is built around H's sense of our distress and a need to accept it. Is that an answer as found in metaphysics and worldviews? Only if it is an unsettled settlement, a willingness to stay on a path with no end in view.

Summary: Heidegger's "Second Masterpiece"

Heidegger's "Contributions to Philosophy: From Enowning" is generally regarded as a second masterpiece, following his unfinished Being and Time, in which he reworked some of the major ideas that were explored in the earlier text. If you are interested in a good scholarly understanding Heidegger via a series of landmark texts that will lead you to the core of Heidegger's thought then this is definitely a must-read.

The Contributions, written after the famous Heideggerian "Turn" and after his fateful involvement with the "inner truth and greatness of the movement" is of a level of sophistication that is unmatched. Arranged in terms of a series of distinct but interrelated parts, the text overcomes the problems encountered in Being and Time and takes off thinking to new heights.

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