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List of Abbreviations ix
Preface to the Second Edition xi
Introduction to the First Edition xiv
Chronological Overview xxxv
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ix
X BECOMING HEIDEGGER
The goal of this second edition is the same as that of the first: to provide a relatively
complete collection of Heidegger's occasional writings in English translation and
paraphrase from the young Heidegger's formative years to his breakthrough to his
lifelong topic in the lecture course of Kriegsnotsemester (KNS) 1919 to the end of
1927, after the first major explication of that topic in his magnum opus, Being and
Time, was published and subjected to its first public reception. All the works that
precede KNS 1919, before Heidegger became Heidegger, give us a different Hei
degger than the one we have come to know through his later works: the young
seminarian writing apologetic essays in defense of the Catholic faith, the newly
graduated university instructor dedicated to a “life’s work” in medieval philoso
phy that would be “equiprimordially” systematic and historical. The one thread
that endures out of these earliest works is that of phenomenology, first as a phe
nomenological logic in 1912 and then as a phenomenology of religious con
sciousness/life in 1917, which culminates in KNS 1919 with a definition of
phenomenological philosophy as the pre-theoretical proto-science of originary
experience. Other elements of Heidegger s distinctive thought soon emerge in his
lecture courses and his more extracurricular occasional writings: the formal indi
cation of Existenz as the sense of being of the “I am,” of the selfthat I myselfam in
my unique existential situation; the hermeneutics of factic life (double genitive);
the hermeneutic situation out of which each generation of philosophers comes to
terms with its time; the temporal ontology of Dasein prefigured in statements of
self-identification like “I myself am my time” and “We ourselves are history!” At
this point, we can break off this progression of Heidegger's central insights and
leave him to continue following his one guiding star, namely, the intimately in
terrogative Dasein-Sein relationship, in a lifetime of fundamental questioning.
This collection of vitae, reviews, journal articles, talks in a variety of concrete
contexts and occasions, philosophically revealing letters, etc. thus constitute the
occasional writings composed at various stages in the course of the life of a Ger
man academic. Some of the occasions (here usually sketched out in biographical
detail) are quite mundane and routine, like the earliest reviews, and some more
pressing, like the text written for academic promotion. As Heidegger polished his
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xii BECOMING HEIDEGGER
rhetorical style and found his unique philosophical voice, he at once developed a
stronger sense of the favorable occasion, the opportune moment, and even the
urgent sense of an existential situation in which to frame his presentations. One
would expect nothing less from a philosopher who dedicated his life to a focus on
Da-Sein, being-here-and-now in its own temporally particular situation and his
torical context. Not to say that there were not some miscues. But then there is the
Nietzschean meditation on the comprehensive situational meaning of the Great
War in the 1915 article in a local newspaper. This sort of meditation-on-the-
meaning (Besinnung) of world-historical events and trends would continue for
the rest of his life, where the old Heidegger, for example, kept up with the latest
developments of technology in the “atomic-cybernetic-space age,” on the basis of
which he cultivated a prescient sense of the essence of modern technology as “syn
thetic com-posit(ion)ing” ( Ge-Stell). Such an etymological translation (as opposed
to “enframing”) immediately captures today's technical realities of artifactual sys
tems that network the entire globe into global positioning systems, air traffic con
trol grids, world weather mapping, the C N N network, and the internetted World
Wide Web, all of which are programmed by the composited wholes of the posits
and non-posits of digital logic that was first devised by Leibniz.
The entire collection is situated deliberately at the interface of philosophy
and biography, thought and life, in Heidegger s terms, the existential-ontological
and the existentiell-ontic. This is very much in keeping with Heidegger's own
sense of philosophizing, which begins in the primal act of each existing individual
owning up radically to the finite existential and temporal situation in which they
find themselves, and making it their very own. This act of existential self-appro
priation, in accepting all that is irrevocably and inescapably given in the facticity
of the “I am,” would include certain unalterable characters of a person s situation
that cannot be denied without “denying who I am,” which may well be “bio
graphical” in nature. Heidegger illustrates this in his letter to Karl Lowith in Au
gust 1921 in which he declares that inescapably given in his concrete facticity is
the fact that “I am a Christian theo-logian.” Behind this admission of self-identi
ty lies an ontic background experience that finds itself deeply embedded in a fac
ticity of Christian religiosity that came from a (here left unspoken and clearly
ontic) boyhood spent in the still medieval rhythms of Messkirch as the son of the
church sexton, and a former Catholic seminarian who had broken with the reli
gion of his youth to become a non-denominational “free Christian” and was now
on the verge of proclaiming the atheism of philosophy in close conjunction with
the rigorous fideism of Protestant theology. Thus, Heidegger explains to his two
prize students, Lowith and Oskar Becker, neither one of which, in view of their
own respective facticities (concrete backgrounds), could be expected to accept his
Christian side, where he is in fact coming from (Herkunjt) and how he is trans
lating “the inner obligations of my facticity” into necessary tasks and projects, like
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION xiii
the two courses in the phenomenology of religion that he had just completed.
When each of them has come to terms with their respective facticities (concrete
existential and biographical backgrounds), then they all are in a position, despite
their differing philosophical approaches, to come together “in the one way in
which humans can be genuinely together: in Existenz,” in a philosophical com
munity of individualistic existentialists.
All translations and paraphrases have been thoroughly vetted especially for
this second edition.
Theodore Kisiel
Introduction to the First Edition
When Martin Heidegger “reluctantly” (FS, xi) published a collection of his Early
Writings (Frühe Schriften, 1972) four years before his death in 1976, he included
only the two book-length doctoral dissertations supplemented by the “test lecture”
presented at the dissertation defense in July 1915 before the Freiburg Philosophi
cal Faculty which, upon fulfillment of these final requirements, immediately grant
ed him the license to teach at the university level. The posthumous German
edition of the Early Writings in 1978 was further supplemented mosdy by some
short book reviews and a literature overview, so that “the volume now includes, in
their entirety, all of the early published writings of Martin Heidegger between
1912 and 1916” (GA 1, 438). This “definitive” supplementation of Heideggers
earliest philosophical writings itself however soon proved to be short-lived. In his
biography of Heidegger in 1988, Hugo Ott first announced the archival discovery
o f eight hitherto unknown earlier essays, mostly book reviews and literature
overviews, from the years 1910- 1913, not to speak of an early poem, that the
youthful theology student Heidegger had published in the newly founded German
Catholic journal aimed against “modernism,” TheAcademician} These newly dis
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