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Books

Towards the Definition of Philosophy by Martin Heidegger

Roger Caldwell reads some never-before translated lectures by an ambitious young Martin Heidegger.

The year is 1919. The 29-year-old Heidegger – who has successfully masked his origins as a theologian – is clearly out to make his mark. He has aligned himself with Husserl and phenomenology, but has yet to prove his own credentials as an original thinker. Being and Time is still undreamt-of, some eight years in the future. What are we to make of the young lecturer with the magnetic personality?

This book translates Heidegger’s earliest extant lecture-courses at Freiburg into English for the first time.

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