Selected Secondary Literature
Here I provide a list of selected pieces of secondary literature on topics I suspect may be of interest to some of you. This list is highly incomplete. I have selected the articles based in part on what I think you are ready to read. The list is organized by topic.
Secondary reading is not required for this course, but it is encouraged for those who want to push beyond a more casual level of understanding.
Das Man (the "They")
Olafson, Frederick. "Heidegger à la Wittgenstein or 'Coping' with Professor Dreyfus." Inquiry 37 (1994): 45-64.
Carman, Taylor. "On Being Social: A Reply to Olafson." Inquiry 37 (1994): 203-223.
Dreyfus, Hubert L. "Interpreting Heidegger on Das Man." Inquiry 38 (1996): 423-430.
Schatzki, Theodore R. "The Nature of Social Reality." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (1988): 239-260.
Natural Science, the Human Studies, and Hermeneutics
Rouse, Joseph. "Science and the Theoretical 'Discovery' of the Present-at-Hand." In Descriptions, edited by Don Ihde and Hugh J. Silverman, 200-210. Albany: SUNY Press, 1985.
Also: Rouse, Joseph. Knowledge and Power. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Hoy, David Couzens. "Heidegger and the Hermeneutic Turn." In The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, edited by Charles B. Guignon, 170-194. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Dreyfus, Hubert L. "Holism and Hermeneutics." The Review of Metaphysics 34 (1980): 3-23.
Okrent, Mark. "Hermeneutics, Transcendental Philosophy, and Social Science." Inquiry 27 (1984): 23-49.
The Nature of Truth
Wrathall, Mark A. "Heidegger and Truth as Correspondence." International Journal of Philosophical Studies 7, no. 1 (1999): 69-88.
Anxiety and Death
Fell, Joseph P. "The Familiar and the Strange: The Limits of Praxis in the Early Heidegger." In Heidegger: A Critical Reader, edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Harrison Hall, 65-80. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992.
Blattner, William. "The Concept of Death in Being and Time." Man and World 27 (1994): 49-70.
Heidegger, Nazism, Politics
Sluga, Hans D. Heidegger's Crisis : Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Thomson, Iain. "Heidegger and the Politics of the University." Journal of the History of Philosophy 41, no. 4 (2003): 515-542.
Thomson, Iain. "Heidegger and National Socialism." In A Companion to Heidegger, edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall, pp. 32-48. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2005.
What is Dasein?
Haugeland, John. "Dasein's Disclosedness." In Heidegger: A Critical Reader, edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Harrison Hall, 27-44. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992.
———. "Heidegger on Being a Person." Noûs 16 (1982): 15-26.
Blattner, William . "Existence and Self-Understanding in Being and Time." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (1996): 97-110.
Authenticity and Resoluteness
Vogel, Lawrence. The Fragile "We": Ethical Implications of Heidegger's "Being and Time". Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1994.
Dreyfus, Hubert L. and Jane Rubin. Appendix to Being-in-the-World. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1991.
Thomson, Iain. "Deconstructing the Hero." In Comics as Philosophy, edited by Jeff McLaughlin, pp. 100-129. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Temporality
Blattner, William. "Temporality." In A Companion to Heidegger, edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall, pp. 311-324. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2005.
Helpful More General Books
Mongraphs
Carman, Taylor. Heidegger's Analytic. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Dreyfus, Hubert L. Being-in-the-World. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1991.
Guignon, Charles. Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1983.
Okrent, Mark. Heidegger's Pragmatism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Collections
Guignon, Charles, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Dreyfus, Hubert L. and Wrathall, Mark, eds. A Companion to Heidegger. London: Blackwell Publsihers, 2005.
Biographies:
Safranski, Rüdiger. Martin Heidegger : Between Good and Evil. Translated by Ewald Osers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Ott, Hugo. Martin Hiedegger. Translated by Allan Blunden. New York: Basic Books, 1993.