Abstract

William McNeill and Nicholas Walker provide an excellent translation of Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik, the text of a lecture course delivered in 1929-30 and originally published in 1983 as volume 29/30 of Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe. In this text, which is crucial to understanding the transition from Heidegger's earlier to his later thinking, readers will find a helpful overview of Heidegger's conception of metaphysics, a brilliant phenomenological analysis of boredom, an investigation of the essence of life and animality, and an analysis of the structure of the propositional statement.