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In Thinking After Heidegger, David Wood takes up Heidegger's challenge: after the end of philosophy we need to learn to think. But should we not read Heidegger with the same respectful irreverence that he brought to reading the Greeks, Kant, Hegel, Husserl? If it is Derrida's engagements with Heidegger that set the standard for critical reflection, Wood is not content to crown the new king. Instead he sets up a many-sided conversation between Heidegger, Hegel, Adorno, Nietzsche, Blanchot, Kierkegaard. Derrida and others. Derrida and deconstruction are first critically addressed and then drawn into the fundamental project of philosophical renewal, or renewal as philosophy. Thinking After Heidegger will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of contemporary philosophy, literature and cultural studies.