Ontology : the hermeneutics of facticity / Martin Heidegger ; translated by John van Buren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Series:

Studies in Continental thought

Standardized Title:

Ontologie. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Physical Description:

xii, 138 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1999]

Summary:

Ontology--The Hermeneutics of Facticity, first published in 1988 as volume 63 of Martin Heidegger's Collected Works, is the first English translation of a lecture course given during his legendary early Freiburg period (1915-1923). Anticipating both the phenomenological hermeneutical analysis of factical Dasein in Being and Time (1927) and the poetic thinking in Heidegger's writings after 1930, the experimental theme of these renowned lecture course notes from the summer semester of 1923 is the "be-ing there" of facticity in "the awhileness of its temporal particularity." The 33-year-old Heidegger illustrates this theme with an ingenious interpretation of the table in his home and the activities of his young family around it.

In this initial attempt at a systematic presentation of how in ontology the traditional question of being can be reformulated on the basis of a hermeneutical analysis of the temporality of factical life, Heidegger deals with an array of related themes, which include the history of hermeneutics from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to Schleiermacher and Dilthey, the development of phenomenology and its relation to the Hegelian dialectic, the relation between Christian theology and ontology, the contemporary situation of philosophy and the university, and the influences of Aristotle, Luther, Kierkegaard, and Husserl on his thought.

Accompanied by extensive translator's endnotes amplifying terminological and literary issues in Heidegger's lectures, Ontology--The Hermeneutics of Facticity is indispensable reading for anyone interested in understanding the development of both Heidegger's early and later thought.

Contents:

1. The title "Ontology" 1

Part 1 Paths of Interpreting the Being-There of Dasein in the Awhileness of Temporal Particularity 5

Chapter 1 Hermeneutics 6

2. The traditional concept of hermeneutics 6

3. Hermeneutics as the self-interpretation of facticity 11

Chapter 2 The Idea of Facticity and the Concept of "Man" 17

4. The concept of "man" in the biblical tradition 17

5. The theological concept of man and the concept of "animal rationale" 21

6. Facticity as the being-there of Dasein in the awhileness of temporal particularity. The "today" 24

Chapter 3 Being-Interpreted in Today's Today 28

7. Historical consciousness as an exponent of being-interpreted in the today 28

8. Today's philosophy as an exponent of being-interpreted in the today 32

9. Insert: "Dialectic" and phenomenology 34

10. A look at the course of interpretation 37

Chapter 4 Analysis of Each Interpretation Regarding Its Mode of Being-Related to Its Object 40

11. The interpretation of Dasein in historical consciousness 40

12. The interpretation of Dasein in philosophy 45

13. Further tasks of hermeneutics 50

Part 2 The Phenomenological Path of the Hermeneutics of Facticity

Chapter 1 Preliminary Reflections: Phenomenon and Phenomenology 53

14. On the history of "phenomenology" 53

15. Phenomenology in accord with its possibility as a how of research 58

Chapter 2 "The Being-There of Dasein Is Being in a World" 61

16. The formal indication of a forehaving 61

17. Misunderstandings 62

A. The subject-object schema 62

B. The prejudice of freedom from standpoints 63

Chapter 3 The Development of the Forehaving 65

18. A look at everydayness 65

19. An inaccurate description of the everyday world 67

20. A description of the everyday world on the basis of going about dealings in which we tarry for a while 69

Chapter 4 Significance as the Character of the World's Being-Encountered 71

21 An analysis of significance (first version) 71

22. An analysis of significance (second version) 74

23. Disclosedness 74

A. Availability 75

B. The appearance of the with-world 75

24. Familiarity 76

25. The unpredictable and comparative 77

26. The character of the world's being-encountered 78

Appendix Inserts and Supplements 81

I. Investigations for a hermeneutics of facticity (1-1-1924) [regarding [section][section]15, 19-20] 81

II. Themes (1-1-1924) [regarding [section][section]7-13] 81

III. In overview (1-1-1924) [regarding [section][section]7-13, 14-15] 82

IV. Hermeneutics and dialectic (regarding [section]9) 83

V. Human being [regarding [section][section]4-5, 2, 14] 83

VI. Ontology. Natura hominis (regarding [section][section]4-5, 13) 84

VII. The initial engagement and bringing into play (regarding [section]3, p. 14) 85

VIII. Consummation [regarding Foreword] 85

IX. Phenomenology (regarding [section]9, p. 37) 85

X. Homo iustus [regarding [section][section]4-5] 86

XI. On Paul [regarding [section][section]4-5] 86

XII. Signifying (regarding [section]22) 87

German-English 127

English-German 132.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0253335078

OCLC:

40516792