Texts

“Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Dasein, is the nobody to whom every Dasein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another.”

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

Engaging with Martin Heidegger

Primary Sources in English

Artistotle’s Metaphysics

Becoming Heidegger: On the Trail of his Early Occasional Writings, 1910–1927

Being and Time

A Cassirer-Heidegger Seminar

The Concept of Time

Conversation on a Country Path about Thinking

Der Spiegel Interview: Translated by Richardson

Discourse on Thinking

Discussion Between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger

Dun Scotus’ Theory of the Categories and of Meaning

By the spring of 1915 Heidegger, then twenty-five years of age, completed his qualifying dissertation, Duns Scotus’ Doctrine of Categories and Meaning, under the directorship of Professor Heinrich Rickert.

Early Greek Thinking

Heidegger on Dialectics

Husserl - Heidegger Correspondence

English translation of the correspondence of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger to and about each other from 1914 through 1934. Originally published in "Becoming Heidegger," ed. Theodore Kisiel and Thomas Sheehan (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007)

Schelling's Treatise on the Essence of Human Freedom

History of the Concept of Time

Husserl and Heidegger on Phenomenology 1927 - 1931

Identity and Difference

An Introduction to Metaphysics: Translated by Manheim

Introduction to Metaphysics: Translated by Fried and Polt

Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics

Logic as the Question Concerning the Nature of Language

The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic

Nietzsche Volumes 1 & 2

Nietz sche Volumes 3 & 4

Off the Beaten Track

On the Essence of Truth

On the Way to Language

On Time and Being

Parmenides

The Phenome nology of Religious Life

Poetry, Language, Thought

The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays

The Thing: From “Poetry, Language, Thought”

What is a Thing?

What is Called Thinking?

What is Metaphysics?

Primary Sources in German

Christlicher Glaube und Denken

A verbatim transcript of a colloquium on Christian faith in relation to thinking, held by Martin Heidegger with the "Old Marburger" group on Wednesday, October 22, 1959, at Höchst in Odenwald in Hesse. (Heidegger discusses what he means by "Seinsvergessenheit" on pp. 13-16.)

Die Herkunft der Gottheit (1943-44)

Part of a large ms. entitled "Das Wesen der Frage (Eine Reihe von Manuskripten zum Ereignis)," dating from 1943-44 and published by the Heidegger Gesellschaft.

Der Spiegel Interview (in German)

Grundbegriffe des Aristoteleschen Philosophie (Rodi Nachschrift)

An (ideally) verbatim record of Heidegger's 1924 summer semester lecture course on some basic Aristotelian concepts (cf. GA 18).

Hegel Über den Staat

The Wilhelm Hallwachs Nachschrift of the 1934-35 lecture course “Hegel: On the State” by Martin Heidegger and Erik Wolff.

Heidegger on St. Augustine: Confessions Book XI

Fritz Heidegger's typescript of Heidegger's lecture on Augustine's Confessiones, Book XI delivered at the Benedictine Abbey at Beuron (Sigmaringen) on Sunday, October 26, 1930. The text has some handwritten marginalia by Heidegger as well as a Beilage with perhaps the earliest instance of his hyphenation of ex-istieren (cf. GA 83: 72.23f).

Heidegger on Dialectics

Heidegger's colloquium on dialectic held on Monday, September 15, 1952, in Muggenbrunn (two miles NW of Todtnauberg) with Eugen Fink, Max Müller, Walter and Marly Biemel and others. At the colloquium Heidegger read out (see pp. 23 et seq.) the twelfth lecture that he had composed for, but not delivered in, his two-semester Freiburg lecture series "Was heißt Denken?" On p. 20f. Heidegger explains his reading of Parmenides frag. 3 with frag. 8, lines 34-35, which stands in opposition to Burnet's reading in EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY (1920, 3rd. ed.), p. 142, n. 16.

Heidegger’s Freiburg File 1928-32

Selections, with permission, from Martin Heidegger's faculty file, Freiburg University, 1928-1932, in part regarding his appointment to Husserl's chair. Included as well are copies of letters from Heidegger (March 29, April 3, May 11, and October 12, 1930).

Kant’s Lehre von der Freiheit zum Guten und zum Bösen

A Nachschrift of Heidegger's seminar, "Kants Lehre von der Freiheit zum Guten und zum Bösen," winter semester 1928

Lehrstuhl

On the history of the philosophical chair since 1866. By Professor Martin Heidegger. The period covered by the report coincides with the emergence, development, impact and transformation of philosophical research at Marburg University, which already has a firm and clear place in the history of philosophy as the "Marburg School".

Nachschrift of Heidegger's seminar on Schelling's "Über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit"

A Nachschrift of Heidegger's seminar for advanced students (winter semester, 1927-28) on Schelling's "Über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit"

Rückweg und Kehre

Part of a larger folder, "Sein und Fuge," stemming from the 1950s.

Sein und Zeit

Sein und Zeit: Arendt Edition - Part 1 and Part 2

Select pages from Hannah Arendt’s copy with markings.

Secondary Sources

A Bibliography of the English Translations of the Writings of Martin Heidegger

A Companion to Heidegger: Edited by Dreyfus and Wrathall

A Companion to Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

A Continental Aesthetics Reader: On Martin Heidegger

Becoming a Philosopher: What Heidegger Learned from Dilthey by Robert Scharff

Being and Time: A Paraphrased Introduction by Thomas Sheehan

Being in the World by Hubert Dreyfus

Death, Time, and History: Division II of Being and Time

Did Heidegger Ever Finish “Being and Time?” by Thomas Sheehan

Published in DIVISION III OF BEING AND TIME: HEIDEGGER'S UNANSWERED QUESTION OF BEING, ed. Lee Braver, 260-283. Abstract: Heidegger actually did finish being and time -- not the book by that name but the project he set for himself in 1926.