On My Own Publications

Contents

Translator’s Acknowledgments

Translator’s Introduction

I. NOTES TO BEING AND TIME
RUNNING COMMENTS ON BEING AND TIME
1936

1. On Being and Time

2. The transitional character of “fundamental ontology”

3. Fundamental ontology

4. Fundamental ontology and “anthropology”

5. The misinterpretation of my works as “existential philosophy”

6. The impossibility of a “confrontation” with contemporaries

7. From Being and Time to Event

8. The basic deceptions (in the way of thinking)

On the Preface (p. 1)

On § 1. The necessity for explicitly restating the question of Being

On § 2. The formal structure of the question of Being

The multiple meanings of Dasein

Da-sein (its multiple meanings)

On § 3. The ontological priority of the question of Being

and

On § 4. The ontical priority of the question of Being

Da-sein in Being and Time

“Research”

The various places where the word “Dasein” is used in Being and Time

Being and Time (Da-sein) and the question of the human being

The distinction between authentic and inauthentic Da-sein

Why does the interpretation of “Dasein” in Being and Time have a lasting, albeit only an indicative meaning?

On § 5. The ontological analytic of Dasein as laying bare the horizon for an interpretation of the meaning of Being in general.

“Understanding-of-Being”

On § 6. The destruction of the history of ontology

On § 7. The phenomenological method of investigation

What is fundamental about the meaning and limits of phenomenology(The provisional use of the term “Ontology”)

Proceeding into Da-sein

On § 8. The design of the treatise

The playing-forth of the existentiell

The approach of “everydayness”—brought about by “phenomenology”

The three fundamental deceptions (the phenomenological,the existentiell, and the ontological-transcendental)

On Part I. The Interpretation of Dasein in Terms of Temporality, and the Explication of Time as the Transcendental Horizon of the Question of Being

On Division I. The Preparatory Fundamental Analysis of Dasein

On § 9. The theme of the analytic of Dasein

The authenticity and inauthenticity of Dasein

On § 10. How the analytic of Dasein is to be distinguished from anthropology, psychology, and biology

(Dilthey)

On § 11. The existential analytic and the interpretation of primitive Dasein. The difficulties of achieving a “natural conception of the world”

Summary Statement of Division I. Chapter 1.

On Chapter 2. Being-in-the-world in General as the Basic State of Dasein

On Chapter 3. The Worldhood of the World

The Concept of World

On § 15. The Being of the entities encountered in the environment

On § 16. How the worldly character of the environment announces itself in entities within-the-world

On § 17. Reference and signs

and

On § 18. Involvement and significance: the worldhood of the world

On § 23. The spatiality of Being-in-the-world

and

On § 24. The spatiality of Dasein and space

On Division I

Chapter 4. Being-in-the-world as Being-with and Being-one’s-self. The “They”

On Division I

Chapter 5 A. Being-in as such

On § 29. Da-sein as disposition

On § 30. Fear as a mode of disposition

On § 31. Da-sein as understanding

On § 32. Understanding and interpretation

On § 33. Assertion as a derivative mode of interpretation

On § 34. Da-sein and discourse. Language

On Division I

Chapter 5 B. The everyday Being of the “there” and the falling of Dasein

On § 35. Idle talk

On § 36. Curiosity

On § 37. Ambiguity

On § 38. Falling and thrownness

On Division I

Chapter 6. Care as the Being of Dasein

On § 39. The question of the primordial unity of Dasein’s structural whole

On § 40. The basic disposition of anxiety as a distinctive way in which Dasein is disclosed

On § 41. Dasein’s Being as care

On § 42. Confirmation of the existential interpretation of Dasein as care in terms of the pre-ontological way of interpreting itself

“Care”

On § 43. Dasein, worldhood, and reality

On § 44. Dasein, disclosedness, and truth

On § 44 a. The traditional concept of truth and its ontological foundation

Truth (correctness) as the ground of the subject-object-relation

On § 44 c. The kind of Being which truth possesses, and the presupposition of truth

On Division I

On Division II. Dasein and Temporality

On § 45. The outcome of the preparatory fundamental analysis of Dasein, and the task of a primordial existential interpretation of this entity

On Division II.

Chapter 1. Dasein’s Possibility of Being-a-whole and Being-towards-death

“Being towards death”

On Division II.

Chapter 5. Temporality and Historicality

On § 72. Existential-ontological exposition of the problem of history

The end of Being and Time

The outcome of Being and Time

A CONFRONTATION WITH
BEING AND TIME
1936

1. The “voices” of Being and Time

2. On Being and Time

3. Philosophy’s tendency toward scientificity
On Being and Time

4. “Phenomenology”

5. Being and Time

6. The “criticism”

7. On Being and Time

8. The most serious misunderstanding of Being and Time

9. About Being and Time

10. Being and Time

11. If something in Being and Time…

12. Being and Time and its “influences”

13. Being and Time and Kierkegaard

14. “Philology” and Being and Time

15. Being—time—οὐσία

16. The previous opinion of Being and Time

17. The “criticism” of Being and Time

18. Being and Time as “idealism” (See Interplay: The concept of idealism)

19. Being and Time

20. On Being and Time: Da-sein and Being

21. Being and Time as “antithetic”

22. On Being and Time and its anthropological “misuse”

22. On Being and Time and its anthropological “misuse”

23. Being and Time

24. This confrontation

25. A simple but compelling thought as a directive for the interpretation of Being and Time

26. Confrontation—on Being and Time

27. Confrontation—on Being and Time

28. Being and Time

29. The confrontation with Being and Time

30. Publicly communicate the confrontation

31. The question of Being in Being and Time

32. On Being and Time

33. The “confrontation with Being and Time”

34. The confrontation’s essential questions

35. Confrontation—on Being and Time

36. On the confrontation with Being and Time

37. Being and Time

39. On the confrontation with Being and Time

40. On the confrontation with Being and Time

41. A doubt about the publication of such a confrontation

43. On the confrontation with Being and Time

44. Preliminary question

45. The preliminary question of the confrontation

46. On the leading question

47. The para-phenomena and the para-existential. On the confrontation with Being and Time

48. On the confrontation with Being and Time

49. Transition from Being and Time to Contributions

50. The leap-over

51. Da-sein

51. Da-sein

52. Something more and something different needs to be ventured

53. Confrontation. R.C.

54. On the confrontation with Being and Time

55. Being and Time is off-track

56. On the confrontation with Being and Time

57. Confrontation with Being and Time

58. On the confrontation

60. What Being and Time wants to show

64. The deepest error in Being and Time

65. On the confrontation with Being and Time
The “methodism” of fundamental ontology

67. On the confrontation with Being and Time

68. The appearance of pomposity

71. Being and Time

72. The inner difficulty of the “understanding” of Being and Time

73. “Confrontation”

74. Being and Time

75. The essential reversal—which simultaneously goes off the rails

76. The essential efforts since Being and Time 1927

77. The reason, certainly valid but not yet rightly discerned, for discontinuing the publication of Being and Time

78. On the confrontation with Being and Time

79. Transition to Contributions

80. Being and time

81. The Being-question in Being and Time is, against its own will, actually and only the understanding-of-Being-question

82. The basic will in Being and Time

83. Through Da-sein

84. On Being and Time

85. A confrontation with Being and Time

86. Being and Time

87. The way through Being and Time

88. Task

89. Being and Time

90. Being and Time. The transformation

91. Being and Time

92. Time and beyng

93. Being and Time

94. Being and Time

95. Being and Time

96. Being and Time—an approach

97. The historical—inceptual—necessity of the path

98. The historical situation - Being and Time

99. “Understanding-of-Being” in Being and Time

101. Being and Time—a way for a—for the necessary path

107. Beyng and Dasein

110. Being and Time

111. Being and Time

112. Being and Time

113. Brief description of the transformed way to the same goal (Being and Time)

114. The interest in “particulars” (“existence”) and Being and Time

115. Being and Time

116. Contrasting Being and Time against the present day

117. On Jaspers

118. Jaspers’s concept of the “encompassing”

119. Reason and existence (Jaspers)

121. Confession

122. Nicolai Hartmann

123. Hartmann’s critique of “meaning”

124. Main objections against Being and Time

125. Being and Time

126. Being and Time

127. “Da-sein”

128. The opinions of Being and Time

129. Being and Time

130. Beyng and Dasein

ON THE CONFRONTATION WITH
BEING AND TIME
EARLIER

1. Being and Time

2. Being and Time

3. Φύσις and time

4. Being and Time

5. Being and Time

6. Being and Time

7. Being and Time—the question of beyng

8. Being and Time—“space”

9. Being and Time

10. Being and Time

11. Being and Time I and II

12. Being and Time

13. Being and Time

14. Being and Time

15. Being and Time

16. Being and Time

17. Being and Time and its thinking

18. Time and Being—it—“Being”—From Being

19. Being and Time

20. Analytic of Dasein and “ethics”

21. A critique of Being and Time

TEMPORALITY OF DASEIN   WAY

1. Temporality of Dasein

2. In the title Being and Time

3. Being and Time

4. “Fundamental ontology”

5. The experience of the oblivion of beyng

6. The oblivion of Being

7. The basic experience of oblivion

8. Experience of the oblivion of Being

9. The basic experience

10. That the oblivion is

11. In what experience is this thinking?

12. Oblivion   discussion

13. “Repetition”

14. Being and Time

15. On way

16. “Care”

17. “Dasein”

18. Da-sein

19. Kierkegaard   way

20. Those who eagerly make historical misjudgments

“TIME” IN BEING AND TIME   WAY

1. “Time”   way

2. Being and time

3. Being and time

4. “Time”

5. On Being and Time

6. Being and Time and “ontology”

7. “Time”

8. The “ekstasis”

9. The essence of Being is timely

10. Essence of the human being to “time”

11. Being and time and beyng Way

12. “Time”

13. Being and Time (to Beaufret)

14. “Time”

15. “Time” and ekstasis

16. “Time”

17. “Time”

18. “Time”

19. The epochal

20. “Time” and beyng

21. Beyng itself and primordial time

22. “Ek-” “stasis”

23. Ek-sistence

24. “Time”—“temporality” - history

25. “Time”

26. Chrono-logical “time”

27. Being and Time and turn

28. “Time”—ek-static—the essential origin of the “Ek”

29. Carrying-out

30. Carrying-out

31. The epochal (oblivion)

32. The ek-static

33. The ek-static

34. Epochs

35. The epochal

36. The epochal

37. The epochal and the ἐποχή of the transcendental-phenomenological reduction

38. On “way”

39. The epochal and thrownness

40. The epochal and the ontological difference

41. The epochs—the epochal

42. The turn

43. The turn

44. The epochal The turn

45. The epochal of ekstatic time

46. Temporality (Being and time)

47. The essential-view and the epochal

48. The singular

49. Destinal history

ELUCIDATION OF BEING AND TIME
(1941)

1. The Basic Experience in the Thinking of Being and Time

2. On A. What is the reason for classifying Being and Time as “existential philosophy”?

3. On B. What does “existence” mean in Being and Time

4. “Understanding of Being”

5. The two quoted sentences

6. Dasein, temporality and time

7. Temporality, Dasein, existence

8. Anxiety, death, guilt, nothingness in Being and Time’s realm of questioning

9. The “essence” of Da-sein

10. Understanding of Being and Being

11. Being and the human being. Anthropomorphism

THE WAY. THE PATH THROUGH BEING AND TIME
(1943)

1. Being and Time

2. Beyng and the human being

SUPPLEMENT

1. Being and Time

2. The way from Being and Time to primordial time and beyng

3. Being and Time   Way

4. Being and Time

5. Being and Time   The way

6. Beyng   the way

7. Being and Time   Way
Understanding-of-Being

8. Inception as Nostos and nostalgia

9. Inception—destiny of beyng

10. The way

11. The way to beyng through Being and Time

12. Being and Time   The truth of Being

13. The way

14. The way

15. Meditation on the way

16. The way. The path in transition to the reversal

17. The way. The path on the footbridges

18. The way through Being and Time

19. The path over the footbridges

20. The path over the footbridges—the fourfold

21. The distinction

THE “QUESTION OF BEING” IN BEING AND TIME

THE TRANSCENDENTAL IN BEING AND TIME

ON BEING AND TIME IN LIGHT OF THE IN-SISTENT THINKING ACQUIRED

DA-SEIN—BEING AND TIME—EVENT

ON THE INSIGHT INTO THE NECESSITY OF THE TURN (1964)

II. NOTES TO “WHAT IS METAPHYSICS?”

1. Insight

2. The other location of the inception

3. End of “What is Metaphysics?”

4. Thinking and mere thinking

5. What is metaphysics?

6. What is metaphysics?

7. The question “What is metaphysics?”

8. The questions and limits—The answer

9. Metaphysics

10. What is metaphysics?

11. What is metaphysics?

12. “What is Metaphysics?”

13. “What is Metaphysics?”

14. “Metaphysics”—“Ontology”—Ontogony

15. Remark on the Kant book (IV)—“Metaphysics of Metaphysics”— Metaphysics of Dasein

16. Kant’s propositions

17. Jaspers’s philosophy of existence

18. Afterword to What is Metaphysics?

19. What is metaphysics? Logic

20. The “Metaphysics”

[Nothingness—Negation—Negativity]

21. The nothing and negativity

22. What is metaphysics?

23. Nothingness

24. The nothing

25. The nothing

26. The nothing

27. Negation

28. The nothing

29. The condemnation of the nothing

30. Kept in the nothing

31. Nothingness

32. Beyng and negativity

33. Nothingness

34. The nothing

35. The question of the nothing

36. The question of the nothing

37. The history of beyng in its relation to the human being

38. The nothing

39. Nothingness and beyng

40. Hegel’s principle of the “identity” of Being and nothingness

41. Hegel’s negativity and unconditional subjectivity

Anxiety and Attunement

42. “Attunement” and ap-propriation

43. Anxiety—un-settlement—thrownness

44. Being and attunement

45. Shock as the voice of un-settlement

46. Attunement

47. Anxiety as the preliminary attunement of shock

48. “θαυμάζειν”

49. The un-settling

50. Not “world-anxiety”

51. “Finding oneself in the whole”

52. Neither “victory over anxiety”

53. “Victory over anxiety”

54. Anxiety and attunement—Da-sein

55. Anxiety

56. “The human Dasein”

57. Anxiety

58. Nothingness and beyng

59. Not overcoming anxiety

“Logic” and “Thinking”

60. Thinking

61. The dispute about “logic”

62. The overcoming of “logic”

63. To break the “power” of logic

64. “Logic”

65. “Logic”

66. Thinking and nothingness

67. “Logic”

68. “Logic” and thinking

69. “Thinking”

70. For “thinking”

71. Thinking and differentiating

72. The essence of “thinking”

73. The “Logos” in the sense of “thinking”

74. λόγος—λέγειν

75. “Thinking” (“Logic”)

76. λόγος and ἀλήθεια

Beings (Participial Naming) and “Metaphysics”

77. What is metaphysics?

The Ground of Beings

92. The hidden paths and outlets

93. Why-question

94. The ground of beings

95. When we place ourselves over against beings

96. Few pose the question

III. NOTES TO “THE ORIGIN OF THE WORK OF ART”

1. “Presentation” (of beings) and the creative construction (of Being)

2. “Presentation” and work and being

3. Presentation—creative construction—μίμησις

4. “Presentation” in the poem

5. Poem

6. Poem

Presenting   “Saying”   Assertion   (Inventive saying)

7. “Presentation” and creative construction

8. Mere description

9. Description of a fountain and the poem

11. The assertion—the street is snowed under

12. The presentation (The Roman Fountain)

13. The question-worthiness of presenting

14. The extent to which the work does not present

15. Poem

16. The “naturalness” of the presentation

17. The assertion and inventive saying

On the “Origin of the Work of Art”
(The Frankfurt Lectures)

1. Our questioning about art

2. The question about art

3. The question about the work (Why the thingly?)

4. Goal-setting for history and for Da-sein

5. Contributions

6. The path of the three lectures

7. Work and origin

8. Art and the work

9. Art and Being

10. Art and Being—proceeding in relation to the traditionary work

11. Rest and Being

12. “Essence”

13. Origin of the “form” (equipment)

14. The history of taking the thing by surprise

15. The thing and Da-sein

16. “The form”

17. The question about art

18. Why the question about art

19. Knowing and saying about art and works

20. Knowledge about art

21. Art

22. The decisive transformation

23. For Hegel

24. Art in its various possibilities

25. Art and “Culture”

26. Which of the few, essential, simple thoughts are thought about art and beauty?

27. What is essential about the origin of the work of art 398 28. “Form” and “Style”

29. The danger of the interpretation of “Being”

30. “Form”

The Inevitability of Da-sein
(“The Urgency”)
and
Art in its Necessity
(The Effectuating Meditation)

1. The condition of urgency

2. What truth is—How truth can happen

3. Da-sein and original leap

4. Meditation on the essence of art

5. The effectuating meditation on the essential transformation of art

6. Meditation and effectuation of art

7. Da-sein—art and work—truth

8. Art and situation

9. Situation and complaint—Essential transformation of art and its necessity

10. The actual metaphysical necessity of art

11. The necessity of artworks

12. The urgency

13. The inevitability of Da-sein

14. “Art” and knowledge

15. The urgency

16. The question about art

17. Our inception—Art and the affect of being affected

18. Art—Basic question

19. Our inception—Art and beyng—our situation

20. Our inception—The necessity of art and world

21. Our inception

22. The urgency of a lack of a sense of urgency

Beauty as Truth

1. Beauty

2. “The beautiful”

3. “Beauty”

4. Art and beauty

5. Adornment and beauty

6. Adornment and fabrication

7. “Art” and “beauty”

8. Beauty—“tranquility” (Winckelmann)

Work—Form—Attunement

9. Our urgency in relation to art

10. The poem as the inventive saying of Being

11. Poem—in and as language—inventive saying

12. The form of the work—and especially of the poem

13. The un-settling of the work

14. Work and attunement—poem

15. The danger of a coarse humanization of the work

16. The “reality” of what is opened up in the work

17. The aesthetic condition and aesthetic enjoyment

Attunement—Work—Da-sein

18. Attunement and event and Da-sein

19. How can a poem (a work) be attuned at all

On the Overcoming of Aesthetics
On “The Origin of the Work of Art” (1934 ff.)

1. Aesthetics

2. Aesthetics

3. The “aesthetics”—truth and beauty

4. On the overcoming of aesthetics

5. “Aesthetics”

6. The overcoming of aesthetics

7. “Aesthetics”

8. Art from out of the work

9. Art and aesthetics

IV. NOTES TO ἈΓΧΙΒΑΣΙΗ
THE FIRST COUNTRY PATH CONVERSATION

1. Beyng and the essence of the human being
Understanding of Being

2. Thinking

3. Thinking

4. Thinking

5. Thinking as the Ἀγχιβασίη

6. The sign of the turn-back in the essence of beyng

7. Thinking

8. Language

9. The “paradox” in the thinking of beyng

10. The basic experience of the oblivion of Being
The basic experience of the conjuncture of beyng

11. Pure thinking

12. Saying as the pliant safeguarding of the unsayable
The saying of thinking

13. The essence of the basic experience

14. Thinking

15. Experiencing

16. Letting

17. Letting—Releasement—Remembrance—Event

18. Releasement

19. Thinking

20. Thinking

21. Thinking and questioning

22. Thinking as differentiating

23. The erroneous interpretation

24. The distance

25. Appropriating and effecting

26. “Annihilation”

27. Effectuating

28. The question of Being and Time and its dispensation

29. Appropriating

30. φύσις—οὐσία—(Event)

31. The essence of the human being—the event   The only one

32. The essential connection

33. Being

34. The basic experience of beyng-historical thinking

35. The basic experience

36. The basic experience—The forgottenness of Being

V. NOTES TO THE “LETTER ON HUMANISM”

1. Letter

2. Letter

3. Letter

4. On the humanism-letter

5. Letter

6. Letter

7. Letter

8. Letter

9. On the misinterpretation of “Being”

10. On the humanism-letter

11. On the letter—Dasein and temporality

12. Da-sein and Being

13. On the letter

14. The letter

15. On the “letter”

16. That “the letter”

17. On the humanism-letter

18. The shepherd of beyng

19. The shepherd

20. The human being—the shepherd of Being

21. Letter—grace and wrath

22. The metaphysical appropriation of the essence of the human being

23. Letter

24. The human being—and beyng

25. The essence of the human being

26. On the determination of ek-sistence

27. What is metaphysics?

The Kind of Discussion about the “Letter”

28. Avoid

29. The discussion

30. The question-worthy

31. Questions

32. That knowing (*vid-) vanishes

33. Thinking and Christian faith

34. The domain of thinking

35. “Humanism”

36. The “Is”

The Letter

37. Questions on the Beaufret-letter

38. I just want to read something to you

39. “The letter” one will presumably

40. The letter on “humanism”

41. “Projection”

42. The letter on “humanism” 20. XII. 47

43. The letter 18. XII. 48

Editor’s Afterword

Glossary

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