Martin Heidegger - Was ist Metaphysik? - 1929

Was ist Metaphysik? – Martin Heidegger

Bonn: Verlag von Friedrich Cohen, 1929. 29 pages. 23.7cm x 18cm. Softcover in the publisher’s sand-coloured printed covers. First edition of this paramount milestone in 20th-century continental philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology. It represents the public inaugural address delivered by Martin Heidegger upon succeeding his mentor, Edmund Husserl, to the chair of philosophy at the University of Freiburg. This text marks a crucial transitional phase from his landmark 1927 work Being and Time (Sein und Zeit) toward his later preoccupation with the history of Being. In this radical lecture, Heidegger famously bypasses traditional logic to establish "the Nothing" (das Nichts) as the core question of metaphysics, culminating in his famous fundamental question: "Why is there beings at all, and why not rather nothing?" An exceptionally rare, fragile survival of a cornerstone modern text, highly sought after by collectors of philosophy.
Some browning and creasing in the edges and margins of the covers. Pencil markings on the verso of the front cover and on the half title. There is a small tear in the outer margin of the back cover. Creasing of the lower outer corners and margins. Very little browning and spotting throughout. Please check the images, all pages are photographed. The text is clear and the binding is solid. Overall, a beautiful copy in very good condition.