Becoming Heidegger
Subtitle: on the trail of his early occasional writings, 1910-1927
By: edited by Theodore Kisiel and Thomas Sheehan
Contributors: Kisiel, Theodore J; Sheehan, Thomas
Series: Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy; Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9780810123021; 9780810123038
Subjects: Heidegger, Martin, -- 1889-1976 -- Translations into English; Philosophy
Work titles: Selections.
Description: 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 of Being 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 Löwith, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 511-514) and indexes

"Bibliography of GA editions of Heidegger's lecture courses, 1919-1930"--p. 507-509
Table of contents: title: Student years, 1910-1917; title: Curricula vitae; title: Two articles for The academician; title: The problem of reality in modern philosophy; title: Recent research in logic; title: Messkirch's triduum: a three-day meditation on the war; title: Question and judgment; title: The concept of time in the science of history; title: Supplements to The doctrine of categories and meaning in Duns Scotus; title: On Schleiermacher's second speech, "On the essence of religion"; title: Early Freiburg period, 1919-1923; title: Letter to Engelbert Krebs on his philosophical conversion; title: Letter to Karl Löwith on his philosophical identity; title: Vita, with an accompanying letter to Georg Misch; title: Critical comments on Karl Jaspers's Psychology of worldviews; title: Phenomenological interpretations with respect to Aristotle: indication of the hermeneutical situation; title: Marburg period, 1924-1928; title: The problem of sin in Luther; title: The concept of time; title: Being-there and being-true according to Aristotle; title: Wilhelm Dilthey's research and the current struggle for a historical worldview; title: On the essence of truth (Pentecost Monday, 1926); title: Letter exchange with Karl Löwith on Being and time; title: "Phenomenology," draft B (of the Encyclopaedia Britannica article), with Heidegger's letter to Husserl; title: "Heidegger, Martin": lexicon article attributed to Rudolf Bultmann; title: Appendixes: supplements by Heidegger's contemporaries; title: Appendix A: Academic evaluations of Heidegger by his teachers and peers; title: Appendix B: Husserl and Heidegger; title: Appendix c: Karl Löwith's impressions of Husserl and Heidegger