A view of Heidegger's divergence from the traditional philosophies of reason.

DIE BESTIMMUNG DER PHILOSOPH IE 1M DEUTSCHEN I. IDEALISMUS I 2. VERNUNFT UND SPRACHE 2I VERNUNFT UND LEBENSWELT 3. 45 LEBENSWELT UND LEBENSWELTEN 63 4. DIE BESTIMMUNG DES ANDERSANFANGLICHEN 5. DENKENS 8 7 6. DIE WELT 1M ANDEREN ANFANG - DIE ROLLE DES DICHTERS UND DAS "DICHTERISCHE WOHNEN" 8 9 VORWORT In der heutigen Zeit, in der auf vielen Gebieten die iiberkommenen Gedanken ihre Geltung und Wirkungskraft verloren haben, liegt vielleicht die Aufgabe der Philo sophie darin, bewahrend auf die iiberlieferten Prinzipien und die in ihnen liegenden Bestim mungen und Grundprobleme zuriickzuschauen...

At a time when the traditional principles of many fields have lost their power and validity, the task of philosophy may well be to look back at these traditional principles and at their inherent determinations and basic problems, while heeding every indi cation of a transition to something new, in order to be critically open for all attempts at "another beginning. " A philosophizing which thus sees its proper place "between" tradition and another beginning has grasped its own basic dilemma: It remains in search of the true even though it has no valid concept of truth. A concept truth grounded...

Philosophy finds itself "between tradition and another beginning." 1 For this reason it seems necessary to reconsider the foundations of traditional philosophy in the hope that out of these considerations new questions may arise which may lead to a new philosophical foundation. To this end neither the large manual nor the monograph is well suited. What is required, instead, is to take a few steps which lead our thoughts directly into the problems of a given, traditional, philosophical foun dation. In this sense the present work wishes to provide an "introduction" into that philosophical...

This study forms part of a wider investigation whieh will inquire into the relationship of Ontology and Anthropology. Since the meaning of the term 'ontology' is far from clear, the immediate task is to ask the 'father of ontology' what he might have understood it to mean. The introductory chapter emphasizes the fact that Aristotle hirnself never used the term 'ontology. ' It should be stressed at once that, even had be used it, he could not very weH have employed it to denote the discipline of ontology. For it was only during the era of the schoolmen that the vast and rich body of the prote...

Mein Leipzig lob ich mir! Es ist ein klein Paris, schrieb einst Johann Wolfgang Goethe, der oft hierher zurückkehrte. Der vorliegende Band folgt nicht nur seinen Spuren, sondern auch denen anderer Schriftsteller, Musiker und bildender Künstler. Wer durch Leipzigs wunderschöne Innenstadt spaziert oder sich hinausbegibt ins Rosental und nach Gohlis, dem begegnen Namen wie Wagner, Klopstock, Lessing, Jean Paul, Nietzsche, Ernst Jünger, Erich Kästner, Uwe Johnson, Christa Wolf, Volker Braun oder Christoph Hein. Schiller schrieb hier sein Lied an die Freude und wurde zur Uraufführung seiner...