PHIL 919 Heidegger's The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude
A close reading of Heidegger's Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics. The text is a lecture course given by Martin Heidegger during the winter semester of 1929-30. At that time, Heidegger aimed at determining the essence of philosophy through an interrogation of metaphysics. The text includes Heidegger's philosophy of life and nature, and a phenomenology of boredom, which Heidegger considers a 'fundamental attunement of modern times'. The reading will focus on Heidegger's philosophical anthropology.