Synopses & Reviews
Towards the Definition of Philosophy brings together - in their first English translation - two of Heidegger's seminal lecture courses, The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview and Phenomenology and Transcendental Philosophy Value, as well as the lecture, On the Nature of the University and Academic Study. The volume also includes a short glossary.
Synopsis
Towards the Definition of Philosophy brings together - in their first English translation - two of Heidegger's seminal lecture courses, The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview and Phenomenology and Transcendental Philosophy Value, as well as the lecture, On the Nature of the University and Academic Study. The volume also includes a short glossary.
Table of Contents
Translator's ForewordPublisher's Note
I. The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of WorldviewPreliminary RemarksIntroductionPart I. The Idea of Philosophy as Primordial Science1. The Search for a Methodological Way2. Critique of Teleological-Critical MethodPart II. Phenomenology as Pre-Theoretical Primordial Science1. Analysis of the Structure of Experience2. The Problem of Presuppositions3. Primordial Science as Pre-Theoretical Science
II. Phenomenology and Transcendental Philosophy of ValueIntroductionPart I. Historical Presentation of the Problem1. The Genesis of Philosophy of Value as the Cultural Philosophy of the Present2. Windelband's Grounding of Modern Transcendental Philosophy of Value3. The Further Development of Value-Philosophy by RickertPart II. Critical ConsiderationsAppendix I: On the Nature of the University and Academic StudyAppendix II: The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of WorldviewShort Glossary