This probing analysis of the history of ontology is âof enormous significance for students of the development of Heideggerâs early thoughtâ (Daniel O. Dahlstrom Boston University).
First published in 1988, OntologyâThe Hermeneutics of Facticity is the text of Heideggerâs lecture course at the University of Freiburg during the summer of 1923. In these lectures, Heidegger reviews and makes critical appropriations of the hermeneutic tradition from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to Schleiermacher and Dilthey. Through this critical survey, he reformulates the question of being on the basis of facticity and the everyday world.
Specific themes deal with the history of ontology, the development of phenomenology and its relation to Hegelian dialectic, traditional theological and philosophical concepts of man, the present situation of philosophy, and the influences of Aristotle, Luther, Kierkegaard, and Husserl on Heideggerâs thinking. Students of Heidegger will find initial breakthroughs in his unique elaboration of the meaning of human experience and the âquestion of being,â which received mature expression in Being and Time.