Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation: Studies in Continental Thought
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A “readable and fluent” translation of a work that demonstrates a crucial shift in Heidegger’s approach to Nietzsche in the late 1930s (Phenomenological Reviews).
In Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation, Martin Heidegger offers a radically different reading of a text that he had read decades earlier. This evolution in his relationship with Nietzsche has a significant impact on his understandings of the differences between animals and humans, temporality and history, and the Western philosophical tradition developed.
With his new reading, Heidegger delineates three Nietzschean modes of history, which should be understood as grounded in the structure of temporality or historicity. He also offers a metaphysical determination of life and the essence of humankind. Despite the fragmentary and disjointed quality of the original lecture notes that comprise this text, Ullrich Hasse and Mark Sinclair deliver a clear and accessible translation.
In Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation, Martin Heidegger offers a radically different reading of a text that he had read decades earlier. This evolution in his relationship with Nietzsche has a significant impact on his understandings of the differences between animals and humans, temporality and history, and the Western philosophical tradition developed.
With his new reading, Heidegger delineates three Nietzschean modes of history, which should be understood as grounded in the structure of temporality or historicity. He also offers a metaphysical determination of life and the essence of humankind. Despite the fragmentary and disjointed quality of the original lecture notes that comprise this text, Ullrich Hasse and Mark Sinclair deliver a clear and accessible translation.
The translators have done an admirable job of striking a balance between eloquence and readability, on the one hand, and fidelity to Heidegger’s highly idiosyncratic German, on the other.
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- Title: Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation
- Authors: Martin Heidegger, Ullrich Haase, Mark Sinclair
- Series: Studies in Continental Thought
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 292
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780253023155, 9780253022660, 0253022665, 0253023157
- Resource ID: LLS:9780253023155
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T11:51:16Z
Ullrich Haase is Head of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is author of Starting with Nietzsche and editor of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology.
Mark Sinclair is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University and Associate Editor at the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. He is author of Heidegger, Aristotle and the Work of Art.