Making Sense of Heidegger

In this brilliant contribution to Heidegger scholarship, Thomas Sheehan presents his view of the entire trajectory of Heidegger's philosophizing as a phenomenological investigation of the meaning and source of Being (the clearing ) - that which allows entities to show up for us as meaningful. Sheehan's assiduously phenomenological interpretation of the Heideggerian corpus lends itself beautifully both to teaching Heidegger and to interdisciplinary inquiry. -- Robert D. Stolorow Ph.D., author of World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis Thomas Sheehan's eagerly awaited volume is certain to shake up the field of Heidegger studies. Beyond that, however, the new paradigm it advocates - the idea that Heidegger should be read from first to last in phenomenological terms - provides an excellent framework for showing how Heidegger's thought can contribute to contemporary philosophical debates. A work of keen scholarship, powerfully argued, Sheehan's book will be widely discussed. -- Steven Crowell, Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor of Philosophy, Rice University In this superb book, Thomas Sheehan demonstrates that Heidegger's major topic was not being, but rather the clearing in which things can manifest themselves and in this sense be. As the most important work published on Heidegger for decades, Making Sense of Heidegger constitutes a paradigm shift in understanding Heidegger's thought. -- Michael E. Zimmerman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder