Heidegger's hidden sources
Subtitle: East Asian influences on his work
By: Reinhard May ; translated, with a complementary essay by Graham Parkes.
Contributors: Parkes, Graham, 1949-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.; Philosophy -- East Asia -- Influence.
Description: Heidegger's Hidden Sources documents for the first time Heidegger's remarkable debt to East Asian philosophy. In this groundbreaking study, Reinhard May shows conclusively that Martin Heidegger borrowed some of the major ideas of his philosophy - on occasion almost word for word - from German translations of Chinese Daoist and Zen Bhuddist classics.

The discovery of this astonishing appropriation of non-Western sources will have important consequences for future interpretations of Heidegger's work. Moreover, it shows Heidegger as a pioneer of comparative philosophy and transcultural thinking.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [73]-78) and index.