The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy

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The New Yearbook for Phenomenology
and Phenomenological Philosophy
In cooperation with
M. BRAINARD, London lR. BRUZINA, Kentucky
S. CROWELL, Houston lA. MICKUNAS, Ohio
T. SEEBOHM, Bonn lT. SHEEHAN, Stanford
edited by
BURT HOPKINS
JOHN DRUMMOND
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IX – 2010
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The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
General Editors
Burt Hopkins, Seattle University
John J. Drummond, Fordham University
Founding Co-Editor
Steven Crowell, Rice University
Contributing Editors
Marcus Brainard, London
Ronald Bruzina, University of Kentucky
Steven Crowell, Rice University
Algis Mickunas, Ohio University
Thomas Seebohm, Bonn, Germany
Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
Consulting Editors
Patrick Burke, Gonzaga University, Florence
Damian Byers, Sydney, Australia
Nicholas de Warren, Wellesley College
Ivo de Gennaro, University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
John Drabinski, Amherst College
R. O. Elveton, Carleton College
Parvis Emad, La Crosse, Wisconsin
Lester Embree, Florida Atlantic University
Kathleen Haney, University of Houston, Downtown
James G. Hart, Indiana University
Patrick Heelan, S.J., Georgetown University
Friedrich Wilhelm von Herrmann, University of Freiburg, Germany
Nam-In Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Christian Lotz, Michigan State University
James Mensch, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Dermot Moran, University College, Dublin, Ireland
James Risser, Seattle University
Hans Ruin, SödertörnUniversity College, Sweden
Karl Schuhmann†, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Marylou Sena, Seattle University
Panos Theodorou, University of Crete
Olav K.Wiegand, University of Mainz, Germany
Dan Zahavi, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Annie Rose Favreau
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Becoming Heidegger
On the Trail of his Early Occasional
Writings, 1910–1927
edited by
THEODORE KISIEL and
THOMAS SHEEHAN
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2nd, revised and expanded edition
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Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
Preface to the Second Edition xi
Editor’s to the FirstIntroduction xiv
Chronological Overview xxxv
Part I: Student Years, 1910–1917
1. Curricula Vitae 5
2. Two Articles for The Academician 13
3. The Problem of Reality in Modern Philosophy 19
4. Recent Research in Logic 33
5. Messkirch’s Triduum: A Three-Day Meditation on the War 49
6. Question and Judgment 55
7. The Concept of Time in the Science of History 63
8. Supplements to The Doctrine of Categories and Meaning in Duns Scotus 77
9. On Schleiermacher’s Second Speech, “On the Essence of Religion” 91
Part II: Early Freiburg Period, 1919–1923
10. Letter to Engelbert Krebs on his Philosophical Conversion 101
11. Letter to Karl Löwith on his Philosophical Identity 103
12. Vita, with an Accompanying Letter to Georg Misch 110
13. Critical Comments on Karl Jaspers’s Psychology of Worldviews 119
14. Phenomenological Interpretations with Respect to Aristotle:
Indication of the Hermeneutical Situation 144
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x BECOMING HEIDEGGER
Part III: The Marburg Period, 1923–1928
15. The Problem of Sin in Luther 183
16. The Concept of Time 192
17. Being-There and Being-True According to Aristotle 211
18. Wilhelm Dilthey’s Research and the Current Struggle for a Historical
Worldview 235
19. On the Essence of Truth, Pentecost Monday 274
20. Letter Exchange with Karl Löwith on Being and Time 288
21. “Phenomenology,” Draft B (of the Encyclopaedia BritannicaArticle),
with Heidegger’s Letter to Husserl 308
22. “Heidegger, Martin”: Lexicon Article Attributed to Rudolf Bultmann 333
Appendices: Supplements by Heidegger’s Contemporaries
Appendix I: Academic Evaluations of Heidegger by his Teachers and Peers 339
Appendix II: Husserl and Heidegger 351
1. Correspondence to and about Each Other, 1914–1934 351
2. For Edmund Husserl on his Seventieth Birthday 414
Appendix III: Karl Löwith’s Impressions of Husserl and Heidegger 420
Annotated Glossary 427
Bibliography of GAEditions of Heidegger’s Lecture Courses 439
Bibliography 442
Index of Names 463
Index of Subject Matter xxx
Index of Greek Terms xxx
Index of Latin Terms xxx
Abbreviations
Consult the Bibliography for complete references of works cited in the notes, as well
as for translations, should they exist, and for conventions of citing individual works be-
yond those listed below
Frequently Cited Works by Martin Heidegger
FS Frühe Schriften[Early Writings]. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1972.
GA Gesamtausgabe[Collected Edition]. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1975–.
This abbreviation is followed by the volume number and the page num-
bers being cited, as in ‘GA9, 176–81’.
GA1 Frühe Schriften(1912–1916). Edited by Friedrich-Wilhelm von Her-
rmann. Gesamtausgabe1. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1978. Full biblio-
graphic data on other Gesamtausgabevolumes cited are to be found in the
introductory section C (“Heidegger’s Early Occasional Writings”) of the
“Chronological Overview” and at the end of the volume in the “Bibliog-
raphy of GAEditions of the Lecture Courses.”
BT Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1927; 7th ed., 1953; 17th ed., 1993.
Pagination of the 7th to the 17th edition will be used in citing this 1927
classic. The two extant English translations under the title of Being and
Time—first published respectively in 1962 (Macquarrie and Robinson)
and 1997 (Joan Stambaugh)—both give the pagination of Niemeyer’s Ger-
man edition in the margins.
Frequently Cited Works by Others
Briefwechsel Husserl, Edmund. Briefwechsel[Correspondence]. Edited by Karl Schuh-
mann with Elisabeth Schuhmann. Husserliana Dokumente III. 10 vols.
Dord recht: Kluwer, 1994. Husserl’s Briefwechselis cited by volume and
page number.
Kisiel, Kisiel, Theodore. The Genesis of Heidegger’s “Being and Time.” Berkeley:
Genesis University of California Press, 1993.
Sheehan, Sheehan, Thomas. “Heidegger’s Lehrjahre[Student Years].” In John Sallis,
“Heidegger’s Giuseppina C. Moneta, and Jacques Taminiaux(eds.),The Collegium Phae-
Lehrjahre” nomenologicum: The First Ten Years, 77–136. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1988.
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Ott, Ott, Hugo. Martin Heidegger. Unterwegs zu seiner Biographie. Frankfurt:
Heidegger Campus, 1988. English translation: Martin Heidegger: A Political Life.
Translated by Allan Blunden. London: Basic Books, 1993. References are
to the German and English pagination, respectively.
German University Semesters
KNS Kriegsnotsemester(war emergency semester), the “interim semester” from
February to mid-April 1919, when Heidegger at war’s end became Husserl’s
assistant and taught his breakthrough course on phenomenological philos-
ophy.
SS Summer semester, which in Heidegger’s time took place typically from May
through July.
WS Winter semester, which typically ran from November through February,
with a month off at the Christmas season.