Becoming Heidegger

by Heidegger, Martin; Kisiel, Theodore; Sheehan, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780810123038
• ISBN10: 0810123037
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-07
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

In the decades since Martin Heidegger's death, many of his early writings--notes and talks, essays and reviews--have made it into print, but in such scattershot fashion and erratic translation as to mitigate their usefulness for understanding the development, direction, and ultimate shape of his work. This timely collection, edited by two preeminent Heidegger scholars, brings together in English translation the most philosophical of Heidegger's earliest occasional writings from 1910 to the end of 1927. These important philosophical documents fill out the context in which the early Heidegger wrote his major works and provide the background against which they appeared. Accompanied by incisive commentary, these pieces from Heidegger's student days, his early Freiburg period, and the time of his Marburg lecture courses will contribute substantially to rethinking the making and meaning ofBeing and Time.The contents are of a depth and quality that make this volume the collection for those interested in Heidegger's work prior to his masterwork. The book will also serve those concerned with Heidegger's relation to such figures as Aristotle, Dilthey, Husserl, Jaspers, and Lowith, as well as scholars whose interests are more topically centered on questions of history, logic, religion, and truth. Important in their own right, these pieces will also prove particularly useful to students of Heidegger's thought and of twentieth-century philosophy in general.

Author Biography

Theodore Kisiel is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University.

Thomas Sheehan is professor of religious studies at Stanford University and professor emeritus of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Editor's Introduction	p. xi
Chronological Overview	p. xxxiii
Student Years, 1910-1917
Curricula Vitae	p. 5
Two Articles for The Academician	p. 11
The Problem of Reality in Modern Philosophy	p. 17
Recent Research in Logic	p. 30
Messkirch's Triduum: A Three-Day Meditation on the War	p. 45
Question and Judgment	p. 51
The Concept of Time in the Science of History	p. 60
Supplements to The Doctrine of Categories and Meaning in Duns Scotus	p. 73
On Schleiermacher's Second Speech, "On the Essence of Religion"	p. 86
Early Freiburg Period, 1919-1923
Letter to Engelbert Krebs on His Philosophical Conversion	p. 95
Letter to Karl Lowith on His Philosophical Identity	p. 97
Vita, with an Accompanying Letter to Georg Misch	p. 103
Critical Comments on Karl Jaspers's Psychology of Worldviews	p. 110
Phenomenological Interpretations with Respect to Aristotle: Indication of the Hermeneutical Situation	p. 150
Marburg Period, 1924-1928
The Problem of Sin in Luther	p. 187
The Concept of Time	p. 196
Being-There and Being-True According to Aristotle	p. 214
Wilhelm Dilthey's Research and the Current Struggle for a Historical Worldview	p. 238
On the Essence of Truth (Pentecost Monday, 1926)	p. 275
Letter Exchange with Karl Lowith on Being and Time	p. 289
"Phenomenology," Draft B (of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Article), with Heidegger's Letter to Husserl	p. 304
"Heidegger, Martin": Lexicon Article Attributed to Rudolf Bultmann	p. 329
Supplements by Heidegger's Contemporaries
Academic Evaluations of Heidegger by His Teachers and Peers	p. 335
Husserl and Heidegger	p. 349
Correspondence to and about Each Other, 1914-1934	p. 349
For Edmund Husserl on His Seventieth Birthday	p. 415
Karl Lowith's Impressions of Husserl and Heidegger	p. 421
Annotated Glossary	p. 429
Notes	p. 443
Bibliography of GA Editions of Heidegger's Lecture Courses, 1919-1930	p. 507
Selected Bibliography	p. 511
Index of Names	p. 515
Index of Subject Matter	p. 521
Index of Greek Terms	p. 529
Index of Latin Terms	p. 533
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