Heidegger���s Metahistory of Philosophy: Amor Fati Being and Truth

Martin Heideggers fame and influence are based for the most part on his first work Being and Time. That this was to have been the first half of a larger two-volume project the second half of which was never completed is well known. That Heideggers subsequent writings have been continuous developments of that project in some sense is generally acknowledged although there is considerable disagreement concerning the manner in which his later works stand related to Being and Time. Heidegger scholars are deeply divided over that question. Some maintain that there is a sharp thematic cleavage in Heideggers thought so that the later works either refute or at best abandon the earlier themes. Others maintain that even to speak of a shift or a reversal in Heideggers thinking is mistaken and argue in conse quence that his thinking develops entirely consistently. Lastly there are those who admit a shift in emphasis and themes in his works but introduce a principle of complementarity - the shift is said to repre sent a logical development of his thi.nking. Too often the groups re semble armed camps.