Identity and Difference
Contributors: Joan Stambaugh (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 1, 2002
Language: eng; ger
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780226323787
Subjects: Metaphysics & ontology; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Metaphysics; Philosophy / Metaphysics; Philosophy
First sentence: The problem of identity has been a basic philosophical issue since Parmenides.
Description: "Identity and Difference consists of English translations and the original German versions of two little-known lectures given in 1957 by Martin Heidegger: "The Principle of Identity" and "The Onto-theo-logical Constitution of Metaphysics," both discussions of the problem of identity in the history of metaphysics. A helpful introduction and a list of references are also provided by translator Joan Stambaugh."--Jacket.