The Basic Problems of Phenomenology [Paperback]

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.

In Albert Hofstadters excellent translation, we can listen in as Heidegger clearly and patiently explains . . . the ontological difference.

Albert Hofstadter is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His translation of Heidegger's Poetry, Language, Thought received a National Book Award.

This volume belongs in every collection on Heidegger and is required reading for anyone interested in this major thinker.For all students and scholars, Basic Problems will provide the missing link between Husserl and Heidegger, between phenomenology and Being and Time.A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1982Perhaps the most generally accessible text that Heidegger published. . . . The translation is superb.

Translators Preface
Translators Introduction

Introduction
1. Exposition and General Division of the theme
2. The concept of philosophy. Philosophy and world-view
3. Philosophy as science of being
4. The four theses about being and the basic problems of phenomenology
5. The character of ontological method. The three basic components of phenomenological method
6. Outline of the course

Part One: Critical Phenomenological Discussion of Some Traditional Theses about Being
Chapter One: Kants Thesis: Being Is Not a Real Predicate
7. The content of the Kantian thesis
8. Phenomenological analysis of the explanation of the concept of being or of existence given by Kant
9. Demonstration of the need for a more fundamental formulation of the problem of the thesis and of a more radical foundation of this problem

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