The Metaphysics of German Idealism. Martin Heidegger
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The Metaphysics of German Idealism
A New Interpretation of Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and the Matters Connected Therewith (1809)
Martin Heidegger
Translated by Ian Alexander Moore and Rodrigo Therezo
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First published in German as GA vol. 49, Die Metaphysik des deutschen Idealismus. Zur erneuten Auslegung von Schelling: Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit und die damit zusammenhängenden Gegenstände (1809) © Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 1991. 2nd, revised edition 2006.
This English translation © Polity Press, 2021
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4012-9
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Names: Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976, author. | Moore, Ian Alexander, translator. | Therezo, Rodrigo, translator. | Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976. Metaphysik des deutschen Idealismus.
Title: The metaphysics of German idealism : a new interpretation of Schelling’s Philosophical investigations into the essence of human freedom and the matters connected therewith (1809) / Martin Heidegger ; translated by Ian Alexander Moore and Rodrigo Therezo.
Other titles: Metaphysik des deutschen Idealismus. English
Description: Cambridge ; Medford : Polity Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “A major work by one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, published here in English for the first time” – Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020057294 (print) | LCCN 2020057295 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509540105 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509540129 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775–1854. | Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775–1854. Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit. | Idealism, German.
Classification: LCC B2898 .H4513 2021 (print) | LCC B2898 (ebook) | DDC 193–dc23
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Translators’ Introduction
The decision to translate Heidegger into English is in many respects a difficult one. Not simply because Heidegger’s thought remains irreducibly tied to language and to a certain artisanal craft of writing – a “Hand-werk der Schrift,” as he calls it in “The Letter on ‘Humanism’”1 – but also because English, to all appearances, at least, was not a language Heidegger particularly esteemed. This would be philosophically irrelevant were it not for the utmost significance Heidegger himself ascribes to “the essential danger” that the “English-American” language poses, a threat to nothing less than the “shrine” of being in which “the essence of the human is held in store.”2 It is difficult to overlook, then, a certain irony at the heart of any English translation of Heidegger, particularly of a Heidegger text, such as The Metaphysics of German Idealism, dating back to the early 1940s, when Heidegger’s most explicit condemnation of English takes place. Would it not be an ontological disaster to translate the thinker of this ontological disaster precisely into the language in which this disaster is supposed to unfold?
Yet we maintain that such an undertaking is nevertheless in keeping with another Heidegger, more open to a non-Greek other and capable of writing – in 1946 – that “in the most diverse ways, being speaks everywhere and always, through all language,” even, dare we say, the English language?3
Translated here in its entirety for the first time is volume forty-nine of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe or “Collected Works,” a volume comprised of a lecture course delivered at the University of Freiburg in the first trimester of 1941 and of material for a seminar held there in the summer semester of that year. Previously, excerpts from this volume, occasionally