In this collection of early lectures, the author of Being and Time defines and begins to develop his unique approach to phenomenology.
This volume contains the first lectures Martin Heidegger delivered at Marburg in the winter semester of 1923тАУ1924. In them, he introduces the notion of phenomenology by tracing it back to AristotleтАЩs treatments of phainomenon and logos. This extensive commentary on Aristotle is an important addition to HeideggerтАЩs ongoing interpretations which accompany his thinking during the period leading up to Being and Time.
Additionally, these lectures develop critical differences between HeideggerтАЩs phenomenology and that of Descartes and Husserl and elaborate questions of facticity, everydayness, and flight from existence that are central in his later work. Here, Heidegger dismantles the history of ontology and charts a new course for phenomenology by defining and distinguishing his own methods.