The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World Finitude Solitude

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This book the text of Martin Heideggers lecture course of 1929/30 is crucial for an understanding of Heideggers transition from the major work of his early years Being and Time to his later preoccupations with language truth and history. First published in German in 1983 as volume 29/30 of Heideggers collected works The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics presents an extended treatment of the history of metaphysics and an elaboration of a philosophy of life and nature. Heideggers concepts of organism animal behavior and environment are uniquely developed and defined with intensity. Of major interest is Heideggers brilliant phenomenological description of the mood of boredom which he describes as a "fundamental attunement" of modern times.