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19Being and Truth (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2010.In these lectures, delivered in 1933-1934 while he was Rector of the University of Freiburg and an active supporter of the National Socialist regime, Martin Heidegger addresses the history of metaphysics and the notion of truth from Heraclitus to Hegel. First published in German in 2001, these two lecture courses offer a sustained encounter with Heidegger's thinking during a period when he attempted to give expression to his highest ambitions for a philosophy engaged with politics and the world.…Read more
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20A Companion to Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics (edited book)Yale University Press. 2001.Martin Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics, first published in 1953, is a highly significant work by a towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy. The volume is known for its incisive analysis of the Western understanding of Being, its original interpretations of Greek philosophy and poetry, and its vehement political statements. This new companion to the Introduction to Metaphysics presents an overview of Heidegger’s text and a variety of perspectives on its interpretation from more th…Read more
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10The Scandal of the Body PoliticJournal of Continental Philosophy 4 (1): 107-130. 2023.Classical liberalism stipulates that individuals may only reliably escape a state of war by joining a body politic whose unity is consolidated and preserved by the formation of a sovereign government. Frederick Douglass, through his own experience of slavery and then as a radical abolitionist critiquing the racialized laws and society of the United States, shows that there is an inherent scandal, a schism in the very idea of a body politic. This scandal cannot be overcome, but Douglass enacts a …Read more
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19Interview with Professor Gregory FriedDianoia The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College 6-13. forthcoming.
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47What Is Metaphysics? Original Version / Was ist Metaphysik? UrfassungPhilosophy Today 62 (3): 733-751. 2018.
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Introduction : confronting Heidegger : a critical dialogue on politics and philosophyIn Gegory Fried (ed.), Confronting Heidegger: A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy, Rowman & Littlefield International. 2019.
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A second letter to Emmanuel FayeIn Gegory Fried (ed.), Confronting Heidegger: A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy, Rowman & Littlefield International. 2019.
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A letter to Emmanuel FayeIn Gegory Fried (ed.), Confronting Heidegger: A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy, Rowman & Littlefield International. 2019.
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41What Is Metaphysics? Original Version / Was ist Metaphysik? UrfassungPhilosophy Today 62 (3): 733-751. 2018.
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5Towards a Polemical Ethics: Between Heidegger and PlatoRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2021.This book presents an original and creative enactment of a confrontation between Heidegger and Plato. Gregory Fried outlines a new approach to ethics and politics combining skeptical idealism and what he calls polemical ethics, and goes on to apply polemical ethics to the crucial questions around fascism and racism.
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20After Heidegger? (edited book)Roman & Littlefield International. 2017.This volume presents a survey of critical appropriations of Heidegger’s thought for the 21st century. It includes all the most well-known and respected Heidegger scholars working today and offers a wide range of perspectives in engaging and accessible essays, altogether representing the most comprehensive overview of Heidegger Studies available.
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11Heidegger's Moral Ontology by James D. ReidJournal of the History of Philosophy 58 (3): 626-627. 2020.In this lucid and engaging book focusing on the early Heidegger, James Reid argues that Heidegger sets the foundations for a "phronetic ethics". As Reid later says, "Sein und Zeit could be said to make substantial contributions to 'meta-ethical' reflection on the source of our sense of why, on what basis, we take ourselves to be bound by one thing rather than another". Reid's early Heidegger provides the hermeneutical tools for an ontological meta-ethics that can illuminate "normative questions …Read more
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11Heideggers ′Polemos′: From Being to PoliticsYale University Press. 2014.Gregory Fried offers in this book a careful investigation of Martin Heidegger's understanding of politics. Disturbing issues surround Heidegger's commitment to National Socialism, his disdain for liberal democracy, and his rejection of the Enlightenment. Fried confronts these issues, focusing not on the historical debate over Heidegger's personal involvement with Nazism, but on whether and how the formulation of Heidegger's ontology relates to his political thinking as expressed in his philosoph…Read more
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20Introduction to Metaphysics: Second Edition (edited book)Yale University Press. 2014.This new edition of one of Heidegger’s most important works features a revised and expanded translators’ introduction and an updated translation, as well as the first English versions of Heidegger’s draft of a portion of the text and of his later critique of his own lectures. Other new features include an afterword by Petra Jaeger, editor of the German text. “This revised edition of the translation of Heidegger’s 1935 lectures, with its inclusion of helpful new materials, superbly augments the e…Read more
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Where’s the Point?: Slavoj Žižek and the Broken SwordInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 1 (4). 2007.While Žižek is right to assert both that Heidegger’s political engagement must be confronted as a genuine philosophical challenge and that our modern predicament demands new thinking, I argue that Žižek is wrong to claim that Heidegger made the right step in 1933, even if in the wrong direction. Using the same story as Žižek, G. K. Chesterton’s “The Sign of the Broken Sword,” I argue that Žižek’s sword is also broken, because in the absence of a “big Other,” it is not possible to give an orienta…Read more
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1Re-Reading-Amartya Sen,'The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal'(1970)Philosophical Papers 40 (1): 129. 2011.
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55Ethics and finitude: Heideggerian contributions to moral philosophy (review)Continental Philosophy Review 38 (1-2): 131-135. 2005.This essay applies elements of Heidegger thought to ethics as a practical discipline. The radical finitude of human existence is not only an ontological matter; it is also located in the moral life, in the ways we come to "be" ethically. Moral values are shown to be responses to finite limit-conditions and to be finite themselves in their appropriation and performance. The notion of being-in-the-world is used to show that the moral sphere cannot be understood as an "objective" or a "subjective" …Read more
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26Heidegger, politics and us: Towards a polemical ethics (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 39 (9): 863-875. 2013.
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17Introduction to MetaphysicsIn Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 207. 2013.
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36Retrieving phronêsis: Heidegger on the essence of politicsContinental Philosophy Review 47 (3-4): 293-313. 2014.To be human is to be in the world with others, and so what it means to be goes to the root of ethical and political life. One would have to be exceptionally obtuse not to recognize that this age, which we now share as a planetary humanity, is indeed in crisis, despite all our apparent progress if not because of it: the economic and political upheavals that threaten to throw whole regions into uproar, the shifts in climate that threaten the entire globe with unparalleled disruption, the “advances…Read more
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