Phenomenology of Intuition and Expression

Phenomenology of Intuition and Expression is a crucial text for understanding the early development of Heidegger's thought. This lecture course was presented in the summer semester of 1920 at the University of Freiburg. At the center of this course is Heidegger's elaboration of the meaning and function of the phenomenological destruction. In no other work by Heidegger do we find as comprehensive a treatment of the theme of destruction as in this lecture course. Culminating in a destruction of contemporaneous philosophy in terms of its understanding of 'life' as a primal phenomenon, this lecture course can be seen to open the way towards a renewal of the meaning of philosophy as such. This hugely important philosophical work is now available in English for the first time.

Translator's Foreword Introduction: The Problem Situation of Philosophy 1. The Function of a 'Theory of Philosophical Concept Formation' in Phenomenology 2. The Distinction between Scientific Philosophy and Worldview Philosophy 3. Life Philosophy and Culture Philosophy - the Two Main Groups of Contemporary Philosophy 4. Life as Primal Phenomenon and the Two Problem Groups of Contemporary Philosophy 5. The Phenomenological Destruction Groups Part I: On the Destruction of the Problem of the A Priori 6. The Six Meanings of History and First Bringing-Out of the Pre-Delineations in Them 7. The Right Pursuit of the Pre-Delineations: The Explication of the Sense-Complexes 8. Characterization of Relation: The Articulation of the Sense-Complexes According to the Sense of Relation 9. The Role of the Historical within the A Priori Tendency of Philosophy 10. Characterization of Enactment: The Articulation of the Sense-Complexes According to the Sense of Enactment Part II: On the Destruction of the Problem of Lived Experience 11. The Transition to the Second Problem Group and the Relation between Psychology and Philosophy Section One: The Destructing Consideration of the Natorpian Position 12. The Four Viewpoints of Destruction 13. Natorp's General Reconstructive Psychology 14. The Carrying-Out of the Destruction 15. Constitution as Guiding Preconception Section Two: The Destructing Consideration of the Diltheyian Position (Transcript: Oskar Becker) 16. The Attitudinal Character of Natorp's Philosophy and the Expectation of the Opposite in Dilthey's 17. Report on Dilthey's Philosophy 18. The Destruction of the Diltheyian Philosophy 19. Natorp and Dilthey - The Task of Philosophy Appendices Editor's Afterword Glossary NotesIndex