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Throughout his career, Martin Heidegger read and reinterpreted his own writings. This was part of the entirely self-critical orientation of the journey in the landscape of thought.
On My Own Publications is the first English-language translation of volume 82 of Heidegger's Complete Works. Started a decade after Being and Time…

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The recent translation of volume 82, *On My Own Publications*, urges us to focus on the question of Being and Heidegger’s remarks on five of his works. The first four hundred pages center on his most important book, "Being and Time" (1927), while the rest of the volume covers other notable writings: "What Is Metaphysics?" (1929), “The Origin of the Work of Art” (1935/36), the first of the three Country Path Conversations, ‘Ἀγχι βασίη’ (1944/45), and the “The Letter on Humanism” (1946). Unlike the works in the first and third series, this volume, skillfully translated by Scott Campbell and edited…

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