The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time

by Kisiel, Theodore

• ISBN13: 9780520201590
• ISBN10: 0520201590
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

This book, ten years in the making, is the first factual and conceptual history of Martin Heidegger'sBeing and Time(1927), a key twentieth-century text whose background until now has been conspicuously absent. Through painstaking investigation of European archives and private correspondence, Theodore Kisiel provides an unbroken account of the philosopher's early development and progress toward his masterwork. Beginning with Heidegger's 1915 dissertation, Kisiel explores the philosopher's religious conversion during the bleak war years, the hermeneutic breakthrough in the war-emergency semester of 1919, the evolution of attitudes toward his phenomenological mentor, Edmund Husserl, and the shifting orientations of the three drafts ofBeing and Time. Discussing Heidegger's little-known reading of Aristotle, as well as his last-minute turn to Kant and to existentialist terminology, Kisiel offers a wealth of narrative detail and documentary evidence that will be an invaluable factual resource for years to come. A major event for philosophers and Heidegger specialists, the publication of Kisiel's book allows us to jettison the stale view ofBeing and Timeas a great book "frozen in time" and instead to appreciate the erratic starts, finite high points, and tentative conclusions of what remains a challenging philosophical "path."

Table of Contents

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Key to Abbreviations and Notations
Introduction	p. 1
The Breakthrough to the Topic	p. 13
Phenomenological Beginnings: The Hermeneutic Breakthrough (1915-19)	p. 21
Theo-Logical Beginnings: Toward a Phenomenology of Christianity	p. 69
The Deconstruction of Life (1919-20)	p. 116
The Religion Courses (1920-21)	p. 149
Confronting the Ontological Tradition	p. 221
What Did Heidegger Find in Aristotle? (1921-23)	p. 227
Aristotle Again: From Unconcealment to Presence (1923-24)	p. 276
Three Drafts of Being and Time	p. 309
The Dilthey Draft: "The Concept of Time" (1924)	p. 315
The Ontoeroteric Draft: History of the Concept of Time (1925)	p. 362
The Final Draft: Toward a Kairology of Being	p. 421
Erotetic Epilogue	p. 452
App. Heideggers Lehrveranstaltungen/Heidegger's Teaching Activities, 1915-30	p. 461
App. A Documentary Chronology of the Path to the Publication of Being and Time, 1924-27	p. 477
App. Genealogical Glossary of Heidegger's Basic Terms, 1915-27	p. 490
Notes	p. 513
Bibliography	p. 567
Index of Names	p. 579
Index of Subject Matter	p. 584
Index of Greek Terms	p. 603
Index of Latin Terms	p. 607
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