For both continental and analytic styles of philosophy, the thought of Martin Heidegger must be counted as one of the most important influences in contemporary philosophy. In this book, essays by internationally noted scholars, ranging from David B. Allison to Slavoj Zizek, honour the interpretive contributions of William J. Richardson's pathbreaking Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought. The essays move from traditional phenomenology to the idea of essential (another) thinking, the questions of translation and existential expressions of the turn of Heidegger's thought, the intersection of politics and language, the philosophic significance of Jacques Lacan, and several essays on science and technology. All show the influence of Richardson's first study. A valuable emphasis appears in Richardson's interpretation of Heidegger's conception of die Irre, interpreted as Errancy, set in its current locus in a discussion of Heidegger's debacle with the political in his involvement with National Socialism.

Inhalt
I: Essays on the Early Heidegger, the Late Heidegger, Heidegger I/II, the Beiträge.- Through Phenomenology to Concealment.- Authenticity, Poetry, God.- The Power of Essential Thinking in Heidegger's Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis).- Raising Atlantis: The Later Heidegger and Contemporary Philosophy.- Surplus Being: The Kantian Legacy.- Existenz in Incubation Underway Toward Being and Time.- Gelassenheit bei Heidegger und Meister Eckhart.- Heidegger I, Heidegger II, and Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis).- Reticence and Resonance in the Work of Translating.- Das Gewesen: Remembering the Fordham Years.- II: Through Phenomenology to Thinking: The Turning of the Existential Question.- Die existenzdialektische Grundvoraussetzung der Verzweiflungsanalyse Kierkegaards.- Profile.- The Turn.- The Call.- Letter to Bill Richardson.- Ein Versuch über Herkunft und Zukunft in der Frömmigkeit des Denkens im Hinblick auf Martin Heidegger.- Desire (The) Passion.- III: The Political and the Philosophical: Arrant Errancy.- Dark Hearts: Heidegger, Richardson, and Evil.- Heidegger's Fall.- I Will Tell You Who You Are. Heidegger on Greco-German Destiny and Amerikanismus.- The Uses and Abuses of Aristotle's Rhetoric in Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology: The Lecture Course, Summer 1924.- Power, Language, and Desire.- On Empty and Full Speech: Intelligibility and Change in the Public World.- Reading the Case of Christopher.- IV: The Ethics of Desire: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.- Lacan and Heidegger: The Ethics of Desire and The Ethics of Authenticity.- Now You See It ... : The Dynamics of Presence and Absence in Psychoanalysis.- Myth, Ritual, Desire, and Gender.- Adaequatio Sexualis: Is There a Measure of Sexual Difference?.-Schreber and Hölderlin: The Concept of A-Father.- Hegel, Lacan, Deleuze: Three Strange Bedfellows.- Ontical Craving versus Ontological Desire.- V: Psychoanalysis, Science, and the World: Calculation, View, Transfiguration.- Reflections on the Foundations of Psychology and Psychoanalysis.- Heidegger and Freud.- The Science Thing.- Heidegger's Longest Day: Twenty-Five Years Later.- Heidegger's Philosophy of Science: Calculation, Thought, and Gelassenheit.- The World as a Whole.- Supplement.- Martin Heidegger (Full text of a reference article originally prepared for the Supplement to the Encyclopaedia of Philosophy).- Contributors.- Index of Names.