This page introduces readers to Heidegger’s preferred work, while keeping clear the difference between that and my own interests. I want to provide a reliable resource on Heidegger for new readers. New items for introductory readers are listed at the Facebook/Heidegger page for awhile. Today, Dec. 16, occasioned a posting by me that might be a good first point: “engaged being.”

The last item below, “readings...,” links to a sequenced list of primary works by Heidegger available in English (and there as PDFs online). It doesn’t intend to be comprehensive, not even nearly so. I’m choosing work that is more important for a beginning reader (in Heidegger’s view, I believe)—or for a reader who might be steered away from dwelling with Heidegger due to others’ egregious misreading (in my view, of course). I’m a voice of Heidegger-in-English who’s been venturing since 1971 to embody what he wants to enable.

In any case, I can be useful among other engaged scholars who may be genuinely useful. Click “Heidegger studies” above for more sections of discussions.

As the Facebook Page notes: All good mentors want to see you go your ownmost way. Heidegger is the mentor in mind, not me. But of course I want to be useful.

He’s rigorous with his choice of conceptual commentary on his forgettable little poem (imagistic verse). He intimated near the end of his life, 1973, that something singular about his thinking is here (1947). I think there’s much to gain by dwelling with his conceptual commentary.