Heidegger’s collected works, fully published, will amount to some 100 volumes, and writings about Heidegger run into many thousands. The most complete list to 1972 is Hans-Martin Sass’s Martin Heidegger: Bibliography and Glossary (Bowling Green State University, Ohio, Philosophy Documentation Centre, 1982). Useful introductory lists are in Guignon and Krell below, and Thomas Sheehan’s Heidegger: The Man and the Thinker (Precedent, Chicago, 1981).
Selected texts by Heidegger:
1924: The Concept of Time (Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge, Mass., 1992).
1927: Being and Time, tr. Joan Stambaugh (New York State University Press, 1996); also tr. John Macquarrie, Edward Robinson (Harper & Row, New York, 1962).
1930/1943: “On the Essence of Truth”, in Werner Brock (ed.), Heidegger: Existence and Being (Vision Press, London, and Regnery, Chicago, 1949).
1935–6: “The Origin of the Work of Art”, in David Farrell Krell (ed.), Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings (Routledge, London, and HarperCollins, New York, rev. edn. 1993).
1944: “Remembrance of the Poet”, and 1936: “Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry”, in Existence and Being, above.
1946: “Letter on Humanism”, in Basic Writings, above.
1950–4: Early Greek Thinking (Harper & Row, New York, 1975).
1951: “Building Dwelling Thinking”, in Basic Writings, above.
1953: “The Question Concerning Technology”, in Basic Writings, above.
1955–7: The Principle of Reason (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1991).
1959: On the Way To Language (Harper & Row, New York, 1971).
The classic introductory essay is George Steiner’s Heidegger (Fontana, London, and HarperCollins, New York, 1978, rev. edn. 1992). Walter Biemel’s Martin Heidegger: an Illustrated Study, 1973 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977, and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1976) is more detailed and carefully orthodox. A useful short guide to Being and Time is Stephen Mulhall’s Heidegger and “Being and Time” (Routledge, London and New York, 1996).
For a sampling of recent Heidegger criticism, see Heidegger: a Critical Reader, ed. Hubert Dreyfus and Harrison Hall (Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge, Mass., 1992), and The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, ed. Charles Guignon (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1993). The latter has introductory essays and bibliographical references to many aspects of Heidegger’s work.
On Heidegger’s politics, see Richard Wolin (ed.), The Heidegger Controversy (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1993), and Hans Sluga, Heidegger’s Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1993). The most substantial documentation is Hugo Ott’s Martin Heidegger: A Political Life, 1988, (Fontana, London, 1994 and HarperCollins, New York, 1993).
The theological debates are introduced by John Macquarrie in An Existentialist Theology (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1973). On Taoist and Buddhist influences, see Reinhard May, Heidegger’s Hidden Sources (Routledge, London and New York, 1996).
Useful introductions to European Philosophy are Jenny Teichman and Graham White’s An Introduction to Modern European Philosophy (Macmillan Press, Basingstoke, and St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1995), and David West’s An Introduction to Continental Philosophy (Polity Press, Cambridge, and Blackwell, Cambridge, Mass., 1996).
Here, Rainer Maria Rilke, “Concerning the Poet”, in Rodin and Other Prose Pieces, ed. W. Tucker, tr. G. Houston (Quartet Books, 1986).
Here, Paul Celan, “Todtnauberg”, in Selected Poems, tr. Michael Hamburger (Penguin, 1990).