This indispensable volume adds for the first time a comprehensive anthology of the most important of Martin Heidegger’s recently discovered early essays. Translated by preeminent Heidegger scholars, these supplements to Heidegger’s published corpus are drawn from his long series of early experimental, constantly supplemental attempts at rethinking philosophy. Written during 1910–1925, they precede Being and Time and point beyond to Heidegger’s later writings, when his famous ‘turn’ took, in part, the form of a ‘return’ to his earliest writings.
Included are discussions of Nietzschean modernism, the mind’s intentional relation to being and the problem of the external world, the concept of time in the human and natural sciences, the medieval theory of the categories of being, Jaspers’s Kierkegaardian philosophy of existence and its relation to Husserl’s phenomenology, being and factical life in Aristotle, the being of man and God in Luther’s primal Christianity, and the relevance of Dilthey’s philosophy of history for a new conception of ontology. A detailed chronological overview of Heidegger’s early education, teaching, research, and publications is also included.
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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Editor’s Introduction
1. CHRONOLOGICAL OVERVIEW:
Education, Teaching, Research and Publication
John van Buren
Student Period: Education
Student Period: Research and Publication
Early Freiburg Period
Marburg Period
2. PER MORTEM AD VITAM:
Thoughts on Johannes Jörgensen’s Lies of Life and Truth of Life (1910)
John Protevi and John van Buren, translators
3. THE PROBLEM OF REALITY IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY (1912)
Philip J. Bossert and John van Buren, translators
4. THE CONCEPT OF TIME IN THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY (1915)
Harry S. Taylor, Hans W. Uffelmann, and John van Buren, translators
5. THE THEORY OF CATEGORIES AND MEANING IN DUNS SCOTUS
Author’s Book Notice (1917)
John van Buren, translator
Conclusion: The Problem of Categories (1916)
Roderick M. Stewart and John van Buren, translators
6. LETTER TO FATHER ENGELBERT KREBS (1919)
John van Buren, translator
7. COMMENTS ON KARL JASPERS’ PSYCHOLOGY OF WORLDVIEWS (1920)
John van Buren, translator
8. THE PROBLEM OF SIN IN LUTHER (1924)
John van Buren, translator
9. PHENOMENOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH ARISTOTLE:
An Indication of the Hermeneutical Situation (1922)
John van Buren, translator
10. WILHELM DILTHEY’S RESEARCH AND THE STRUGGLE FOR A HISTORICAL WORLDVIEW (1925)
Charles Bambach, translator
Notes
Glossary
Secondary Bibliography
About the Contributors
Circa l’autore
John van Buren is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of
The Young Heidegger: Rumor of the Hidden King; coeditor of
Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought, also published by SUNY Press; and translator of and commentator on Heidegger’s 1923 lecture course
Ontology—The Hermeneutics of Facticity.