Routes into the Post

Lecture 24, “Heidegger, Again,” offers an overview of the so-called later Martin Heidegger, after what he described as “the turn” in his work in which he abandons his inquiry into Dasein and returns to the ontological question of Being in the context of what he thought was an ontological crisis—the oblivion of Being. It demonstrates how language and art functioned within his later works.

Lecture 25, “Poststructuralism and Derrida,” begins by laying out the distance between structuralism and poststructuralism. It then offers a summary of the work (especially the early) of Jacques Derrida.

Lecture 26, “Deleuze,” offers an overview of the ontology of Gilles Deleuze, the most influential figure of the ontological turn. It does so largely by considering his intentional misreading of Spinoza, but it also discusses his readings of Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson.