Resources: Modern Interpretations and Additional Writings

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Ven. Ñāṇavīra Thera

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Contemporary Resources (Phenomenology)
Ven. Ñāṇavīra wrote:Probably he is not much concerned to understand the mode of thinking that refuses a horizontal (or temporal) interpretation of paticcasamuppāda and requires instead a vertical (or simultaneous) view; but if it should so happen that he is interested, then he could read—if his studies leave him time—either Heidegger's Sein und Zeit or Sartre's L'Être et le Néant. It must be made clear, however, that these works are in no way a substitute for the Canon and, further, that the philosophies of these thinkers, when considered in detail, are open to criticism in several respects. It is their manner of thinking that is instructive.[L. 107 | 113] 29 November 1964


(Thanks goes out to pulga for providing the quote and many of the links)
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The great Robert. C. Solomon gives an overview of Husserl and Heidegger phenomenology in 30 mins, part of a course on existentialism for The teaching company:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X6mUqHEsDU

Hubert Dreyfus, one of the major interpreters of German phenomenology in America, talks about Husserl and Heidegger with Bryan Magee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaGk6S1 ... E784BF0DF9

Prof. Mark Thorsby's lecture series on Phenomenology, covers basics of Husserl's "Ideas I" and Heidegger's Being and Time:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... kPXIMMBXyw

Martin Heidegger (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/merleau-ponty/

Professor Mary-Jane Rubenstein discusses the thought of Martin Heidegger in a lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YqDU1W1jk4

And some primary sources:

Husserl, 'Cartesian Meditations', a short introduction to his phenomenology
http://www.24grammata.com/wp-content/up ... a.com_.pdf

Heidegger, "Introduction to Metaphysics", a series of lectures
http://www.dhspriory.org/kenny/PhilText ... hysics.pdf

Heidegger, "What is metaphysics?" - lecture
https://wagner.edu/psychology/files/201 ... -GROTH.pdf
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yaṃ vedeti taṃ sañjānāti...

What a man feels, that he perceives... MN 18
A couple of excellent essays on Heidegger's concept of Befindlichkeit:

http://janslaby.com/downloads/slaby2014 ... proofs.pdf

https://philpapers.org/archive/ELPAIH.pdf
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