The Basic Problems of Phenomenology : txt
Martin Heidegger ; translation, introduction, and lexicon by Albert Hofstadter.
- xxxi, 396 p. 24 cm. book
- Studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy .
Includes Index Translation of: Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Translator's Preface -- Translator's Introduction -- Introduction -- Part One -- Critical Phenomenological Discussion of Some Traditional Theses about Being -- Chapter Two -- The Thesis of Medieval Ontology Derived from Aristotle: To the Constitution of the Being of a Being There Belong Essence and Existence -- Chapter Three -- The Thesis of Modern Ontology: The Basic Ways of Being Are the Being of Nature (Res Extensa) and the Being of Mind (Res Cogitans) -- Chapter Four -- The Thesis of Logic: Every Being, Regardless of Its Particular Way of Being, Can Be Addressed and Talked About by Means of the ''Is.'' The Being of the Copula -- Part Two -- The Fundamental Ontological Question of the Meaning of Being in General -- The Basic Structures and Basic Ways of Being -- Chapter One -- The Problem of the Ontological Difference -- Editor's Epilogue -- Translator's Appendix: A Note on the Da and the Dasein -- LEXICON --
A lecture course that Martin Heidegger gave in 1927, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology continues and extends explorations begun in Being and Time. In this text, Heidegger provides the general outline of his thinking about the fundamental problems of philosophy, which he treats by means of phenomenology, and which he defines and explains as the basic problem of ontology. --