Supplements : from the earliest essays to Being and time and beyond

217 Pages·2002·0.758 MB·English, German

by  Heidegger, Martin, Van Buren, John

SUPPLEMENTS
SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Dennis J. Schmidt
editor
Martin Heidegger
S U P P L E M E N T S
From the Earliest Essays to
Being and Time and Beyond
edited by
JOHN VAN BUREN
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976.
[Essays. English. Selections]
Supplements : from the earliest essays to Being and time and beyond / Martin
Heidegger ; edited by John van Buren
p. cm. — (SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-7914-5505-X (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5506-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Philosophy. I. Van Buren, John, 1956– II. Title. III. Series.
B3279.H47 E5 2002d
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Contents
Acknowledgments, vii
Abbreviations, ix
Editor’s Introduction, 1
Chapter One
CHRONOLOGICAL OVERVIEW:
Education, Teaching, Research and Publication, 17
John van Buren
Student Period: Education, 18
Student Period: Research and Publication, 21
Early Freiburg Period, 25
Marburg Period, 30
Chapter Two
PER MORTEM AD VITAM:
Thoughts on Johannes Jörgensen’s Lies of Life and Truth of Life(1910), 35
John Protevi and John van Buren, translators
Chapter Three
THE PROBLEM OF REALITY IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY (1912), 39
Philip J. Bossert and John van Buren, translators
Chapter Four
THE CONCEPT OF TIME IN THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY (1915), 49
Harry S. Taylor, Hans W. Uffelmann, and John van Buren, translators
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Chapter Five
THE THEORY OF CATEGORIES
AND MEANING IN DUNS SCOTUS, 61
Author’s Book Notice (1917), 61
John van Buren, translator
Conclusion: The Problem of Categories (1916), 62
Roderick M. Stewart and John van Buren, translators
Chapter Six
LETTER TO FATHER ENGELBERT KREBS (1919), 69
John van Buren, translator
Chapter Seven
COMMENTS ON KARL JASPERS’
PSYCHOLOGY OF WORLDVIEWS(1920), 71
John van Buren, translator
Chapter Eight
THE PROBLEM OF SIN IN LUTHER (1924), 105
John van Buren, translator
Chapter Nine
PHENOMENOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS
IN CONNECTION WITH ARISTOTLE:
An Indication of the Hermeneutical Situation (1922), 111
John van Buren, translator
Chapter Ten
WILHELM DILTHEY’S RESEARCH AND THE
STRUGGLE FOR A HISTORICAL WORLDVIEW (1925), 147
Charles Bambach, translator
Notes, 177
Glossary, 199
Secondary Bibliography, 201
About the Contributors, 205
Acknowledgments
I am grateful to my co-translators who generously and patiently worked on this
project through the last ten years, especially Charles Bambach on whom I relied
for important editorial advice. I also wish to thank Thomas Sheehan, who first
effectively opened up research on Heidegger’s earliest thought in the English-
speaking world, for his generous and valuable suggestions.
We owe a debt of gratitude to Hermann Heidegger, executor of Martin
Heidegger’s literary estate, for his encouragement and assistance throughout the
nineties to make this collection of his father’s earliest writings available in the
English-speaking world, echoing his decision announced in the April 1984
prospectus for his father’s Gesamtausgabe that writings from the Early Freiburg
Period would be published as “a supplement.”
We are also grateful to Dennis Schmidt, editor of the Contemporary
Continental Philosophy Series, and acquisitions editor Jane Bunker for their
support, labors, and patience in waiting for this follow-up volume that was
announced in my first edited volume in this series, Reading Heidegger From the
Start(1994).
We wish to thank the following publishers and journals for granting the
permissions that are spelled out in Chapter 1: Vittorio Klostermann Verlag;
N.G. Elwert Verlag; Cambridge University Press; Dr. Frithjof Rodi, editor of the
Dilthey-Jahrbuch;Wolfe Mays, editor of the Journal of the British Society for Phe-
nomenology; Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal;andMan and World.
Thanks are also due to David Farrell Krell and William McNeill for arrang-
ing to have my translation “Comments on Karl Jaspers’ Psychology of Worldviews”
appear roughly simultaneously in Heidegger’s Pathmarks published by Cam-
bridge University Press and in the present volume.
I also wish to express my gratitude to the Dean of Fordham College, Jef-
frey von Arx, and the Vice-President of Academic Affairs, John Hollwitz, for sup-
porting the completion of this project with a faculty fellowship, leave of absence,
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and teaching reductions, as well as to my research assistants and other graduate
students who assisted the project, especially Kevin Hoffmann, Curt Purcell, and
Robert Vigliotti.
John van Buren
Fordham University, 2002
Abbreviations
TEXTS
BTMR Being and Time, tr. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (New
York: Harper & Row, 1962).
BTS Being and Time,tr. Joan Stambaugh (Albany: State University of New
York Press, 1996).
GA Martin Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe (Collected Edition) (Frankfurt:
Klostermann, 1975ff.). Volume number immediately follows this
abbreviation and then pagination. Unless otherwise indicated, refer-
ences are to first editions. A list of volume titles with other biblio-
graphic information can be found in chapter l of this volume.
OHF Martin Heidegger, Ontology—The Hermeneutics of Facticity,translated
and commented on by John van Buren (Bloomington: Indiana Uni-
versity Press, 1999).
RHFS John van Buren and Theodore Kisiel, eds., Reading Heidegger From the
Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought (Albany: State University of New
York Press, 1994).
YH John van Buren, The Young Heidegger: Rumor of the Hidden King
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
References to less frequently cited secondary works, listed in the secondary bib-
liography at the end of this volume, are made in short form.
OTHER
KNS Special post-war semester, from February–mid-April 1919, at the end
of the First World War.
SS Summer semester, typically from May–July in German universities.
WS Winter semester, typically from November–February, with a month
off for Christmas.
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