Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction

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This book, written by Michael Inwood, is my first interaction with the “A Very Short Introduction” series of books. My initial reaction is impressed, as this is exactly the sort of book I was looking for in an introduction. The book manages to give a very serious, very in depth overview of Heidegger's thought. I appreciated that the book mainly ignored Heidegger's biography, a problem I've had with other introductory books, and tended to err on the side of being overly academic and overly in depth on issues, rather than skipping over them.
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