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Article: Pathmarks.(Review) (book reviews)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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HEIDEGGER, Martin. Pathmarks. Edited by William McNeill. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiii + 385 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95--Pathmarks is a collection of translations of the second edition of Wegmarken, an anthology of essays Heidegger published in 1967. Like its predecessor, Holzwege (1950), the essays are, as Heidegger says, traces of the movement of thinking, "a series of sojourns (Aufenthalte) on the way undertaken (im Unterwegs) to the one question about be[ing]." They are not, as the editor translates, "stops under way" (p. v), but rather precisely living, moving sojourns with major thinkers in the Western tradition of philosophy.
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