Introduction to PhilosophyThinking and Poetizing

[This] translation is readable and admirably unobtrusive. Phillip Jacques Braunstein (independent scholar and entrepreneur) renders Heidegger's key terms in recognisable ways. He has a keen sense of when and how to include the original German in order to reveal translation choices and Heidegger's wordplay without sacrificing the flow of the text.2011 * Notre Dame Philosophical Review * [Abiding] within the depths of Holderlin's way of speaking, Heidegger arrives at the crossing between philosophy and poetry: the creative tension or 'essential sway' within language . . . .Sept. 2011 * REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS *

Phillip Jacques Braunstein teaches in the philosophy department at Loyola Marymount University.

Editor's Foreword Translator's Foreword Introduction Introduction to Philosophy as a Guide to Genuine Thinking through the Thinker Nietzsche and the Poet Hlderlin 1. The Impossibility of an Intro-duction to Philosophy 2. The Need for a Guide to Become at Home in Genuine Thinking 3. The Manifold Ways for a Guide to Genuine Thinking. The Question: "What Now Is?" 4. The Consideration of Thinking in its Relation to Poetizing as One of the Ways for a Guide to Genuine Thinking. Nietzsche and Hlderlin 5. The Confrontation with Thinking that Encounters us Historically: Nietzsche's Main and Fundamental Thought Review (First Draft) Chapter 1 The Fundamental Experience and Fundamental Attunement of Nietzsche's Thinking 6. The Godlessness and Worldlessness of the Modern Human as Nietzsche's Fundamental Experience a) The "Creation" of the Gods by Humans b) The Scope of the Thought of the Human as the "Creating One," the "Creative" in the Human c) The "Metaphysical" Ground of the Thought of the Creative Human: The Modern Determination of the Essence of the Human d) Thought in a Greek Way e) The Worldlessness of the Modern Human 7. The Homelessness of the Modern Human as Nietzsche's Fundamental Attunement a) The Loss of the Previous Home in the Anticipating and Searching for the New Home b) Rationality that Merely Calculates and the Forgetting of the Western Historical Determination Chapter 2 The Creation of the New Home Out of the Will to Power 8. The Homeless Ones as the Conquerors and Discoverers of the New Home 9. Nietzsche's Main Thought: The Will to Power as Essenz (Essence) of Beings and as the Final Fact. The Veiled Difference between Being and Beings Thinking and Poetizing Considerations for the Lecture Introduction Thinking and Poetizing: Philosophy and Poetry ( and ) 1. The Comparing of Thinking and Poetizing. Genuine Comparing 2. The Measure-Setting of the Decisive Thinkers and Poets for the Assessment of the Essence of Thinking and Poetizing 3. The Necessity of a Preparation for the Hearing of Thinking and Poetizing 4. Reflection on Thinking and Poetizing and Their Relationship. The Question-Worthy as the Standard for Contemplation Supplements Second Version of the Review: Introduction to PhilosophyThinking and Poetizing Review of pp. 105ff. (Nietzsche. On the Relationship between Thinking and Poetizing) Second Version of the Manuscript pp. 45: On Thinking and Poetizing. Considerations for the Lecture (Preliminary Questions for the Reflection on Thinking and Poetizing) Two Fragmentary Versions of Manuscript p. 12 a) First Fragmentary Version b) Second Fragmentary Version Notes to the Lecture: Introduction to PhilosophyThinking and Poetizing The Eternal Return of the Same The Will to Powerthe Eternal Return of the Same Appendix to Nietzsche's Metaphysics Notes to Nietzsche's Metaphysics Who Is Zarathustra? A Confrontation with Nietzsche Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra Return and bermensch Eternal Return of the Same and bermensch Zarathustra's Preface Lecture Announcements: Transcriptions and Facsimiles Editor's Afterword