Making Sense of Heidegger

Making Sense of Heidegger presents a radically new reading of Heidegger s notoriously difficult oeuvre. Clearly written and rigorously grounded in the whole of Heidegger s writings, Thomas Sheehan s latest book argues for the strict unity of Heidegger s thought on the basis of three theses: that his work was phenomenological from beginning to the end; that being refers to the meaningful presence of things in the world of human concerns; and that what makes such intelligibility possible is the existential structure of human being as the thrown-open or appropriated clearing. Sheehan offers a compelling alternative to the classical paradigm that has dominated Heidegger research over the last half-century, as well as a valuable retranslation of the key terms in Heidegger's lexicon. This important book opens a new path in Heidegger research that will stimulate dialogue not only within Heidegger studies but also with philosophers outside the phenomenological tradition and scholars in theology, literary criticism, andexistential psychiatry."