Logic

Martin Heidegger, Thomas Sheehan

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Heidegger's radical rethinking of the meaning of truth

Martin Heidegger's 1925–26 lectures on truth and time provided much of the basis for his momentous work, Being and Time. Not published until 1976 as volume 21 of the Complete Works, three months before Heidegger's death, this work is central to Heidegger's overall project of reinterpreting Western thought in terms of time and truth. The text shows the degree to which Aristotle underlies Heidegger's hermeneutical theory of meaning. It also contains Heidegger's first published critique of Husserl and takes major steps toward establishing the temporal bases of logic and truth. Thomas Sheehan's elegant and insightful translation offers English-speaking readers access to this fundamental text for the first time.

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Movements
• PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophie et théologie
• Phenomenology
• Continental

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• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 22 mars 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253004451
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Logic
Studies in Continental Thought
EDITOR
JOHN SALLIS
CONSULTING EDITORS
Robert Bernasconi
William L. McBride
Rudolf Bernet
J. N. Mohanty
John D. Caputo
Mary Rawlinson
David Carr
Tom Rockmore
Edward S. Casey
Calvin O. Schrag
Hubert L. Dreyfus
Reiner Sch rmann
Don Ihde
Charles E. Scott
David Farrell Krell
Thomas Sheehan
Lenore Langsdorf
Robert Sokolowski
Alphonso Lingis
Bruce W. Wilshire
David Wood
Martin Heidegger
Logic
The Question of Truth
Translated by Thomas Sheehan
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Published in German as Martin Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe 21:
Logik: Die Frage nach der Wahrheit (WS 1925-26) , ed. Walter Biemel
1976 German edition by Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Second edition 1995 by Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
2010 English edition by Indiana University Press
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Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
[Logik. English]
Logic : the question of truth / Martin Heidegger ; translated by Thomas Sheehan.
p. cm. - (Studies in Continental thought)
Fifty-three lectures delivered Nov. 5, 1925-Feb. 26, 1926 at Philipps-Universit t,
Marburg, Germany.
ISBN 978-0-253-35466-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Logic. 2. Truth. 3. Time. I. Title.
B3279.H48L6313 2010
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CONTENTS
Translator s Foreword
I NTRODUCTION
1. The first, most literal meaning of the word logic
2. A first indication of the concept of the subject matter of logic
3. A philosophizing logic and traditional scholastic logic
4. The possibility and the being of truth in general. Skepticism
5. Outline of the course. Bibliography
P ROLEGOMENON .
The contemporary situation of philosophical logic. (Psychologism and the question of truth)
6. Psychologism: the name and the concept
7. Husserl s critique of psychologism
a) Some preliminaries of the critique
b) Demonstration of the fundamental errors
8. The presuppositions of Husserl s critique: a specific concept of truth as the guiding idea
9. The roots of these presuppositions
10. Anti-critical questions. The need to take the question of the essence of truth back to Aristotle
a) Why must the critique of psychologism be a critique of psychology?
b) What positive contribution does the phenomenological investigation of psychologism make to the question of the concept and interpretation of the phenomenon of truth?
c) The connection between propositional and intuitional truth. The need to return to Aristotle
P ART I.
The problem of truth in the decisive origins of philosophical logic, and the seedbed of traditional logic (focused on Aristotle)
11. The place of truth, and (proposition)
12. The basic structure of and the phenomenon of making sense
a) The as-structure of our primary way of understanding: the hermeneutical as
b) The modification of the as-structure in the act of determining: the apophantic as
13. The conditions of the possibility of being false. The question of truth
a) Preparatory interpretation. Metaphysics IV 7 and VI 4, and De interpretatione 1
b) Truth and being. Interpretation of Metaphysics IX 10
c) The three conditions for the possibility of a statement being false, taken in their interconnection
14. The presupposition for Aristotle s interpretation of truth as the authentic determination of being
P ART II.
The radicalized question: What is truth? (A retrieval of the analysis of falsehood in terms of its ur-temporality)
15. The idea of a phenomenological chronology
16. The conditions of the possibility of falsehood within the horizon of the analysis of existence
17. Care as the being of existence. Concern-for and concern-about, authenticity and inauthenticity
18. The ur-temporality of care
19. Preparatory considerations toward attaining an original understanding of time. A return to the history of the philosophical interpretation of the concept of time
20. Hegel s interpretation of time in the Encyclopaedia
21. The influence of Aristotle on Hegel s and Bergson s interpretation of time
22. A preliminary look at the meaning of time in Kant s Critique of Pure Reason
23. The interpretation of time in the Transcendental Analytic
a) An explanation of the notions form and intuition
b) The constitutive moments of ordering
c) Form of intuition and formal intuition
d) Space and time as given infinite magnitudes; quantum and quantitas in Kant s interpretation
24. The function of time in the Transcendental Logic. A characterization of the problematic
25. The question of the unity of nature
26. The original a priori of all combining-the transcendental unity of apperception
27. Time as the universal a priori form of all appearances
28. Time as original pure self-affection
29. The question about the connection between time as original self-affection and the I think
30. Interpretation of the First Analogy of Experience in the light of our interpretation of time
31. The schematism of the pure concepts of the understanding
a) Sensibilization of appearances
b) Sensibilization of empirical sensible concepts
c) Sensibilization of pure sensible concepts
d) Image and schema
e) Sensibilization of the pure concepts of understanding
32. Number as the schema of quantity
33. Sensation as the schema of reality
34. Persistence as the schema of substance
35. The time-determination of the synthesis speciosa
36. The now-structure that we have attained: its character of referral and of making present. The phenomenal demonstrability and limits of Kant s interpretation of time
37. Time as an existential of human existence-temporality and the structure of care. The statement as a making-present
Editor s Afterword
Glossaries
Abbreviations
Translator s Foreword

Martin Heidegger delivered the fifty-three lectures titled Logic: The Question of Truth, four days a week from Thursday, 5 November 1925, to Friday, 26 February 1926, at Philipps-Universit t in Marburg. It was during the span of this lecture-course that the dean of the philosophy faculty walked into Heidegger s office and told him, You must publish something now. Do you have an appropriate manuscript?
Within a few months he would. As soon as the course ended, Heidegger went off to his cottage in Todtnauberg and started writing out Being and Time by hand. By the end of March he had finished much of Division One of the text, and by 20 April he and Husserl were reading page-proofs of those sections. In short, the lecture-course translated here is the last that Heidegger taught before rushing Being and Time to press. This lecture-course and Heidegger s 1927 text share many points in common, above all a strong focus on the questions of truth and of time.
Professor Walter Biemel s afterword to the present volume sketches a general outline of the course, and identifies the manuscripts and typescripts he used as the basis of his German edition. In this foreword, I will simply discuss some matters related to this translation of the course.
Professor Biemel based his German edition of the Logic course on three texts: Heidegger s handwritten lecture notes, Fritz Heidegger s typescript of those notes, and the word-for-word shorthand transcript that Simon Moser made during Heidegger s lectures and then typed up and submitted to Heidegger for corrections and additions.
Of these three textual records, Biemel relied most heavily on the handwritten notes that Heidegger drew up before the lectures. But this entails, for example, that all but two of the quite helpful daily summaries that Heidegger made of his previous lectures and delivered at the beginning of the following lecture-more than 68,000 words in all, equal to a small book-are omitted from GA 21 since they are not found in his lecture notes. Likewise, insofar as they do not appear in those same notes, the numerous and often lengthy asides which Heidegger made during the lectures and which are duly recorded by Moser, are entirely absent from GA 21. If one hopes to study the words that Heidegger spoke in this course, they will not be found so much in the notes he prepared before his lectures as in a transcript of his viva voce presentations, such as Simon Moser s faithful record. In sum, the German text of GA 21 is in no sense a critical edition of the lecture-course titled Logic: The Question of Truth, but merely presents a reconstruction of the course by the editor of GA 21-and a fairly narrow reconstruction at that.
I frequently make use of the Simon Moser typescript, without giving notice, in translating GA 21. I have also consulted the handwritten notes of Helene Weiss, a student in the course (who eventually became a professor in Britain), and the typescript of those notes made by Ms. Weiss s nephew, Ernst Tugendhat. My thanks to Professor Tugendhat for making his aunt s notes available to me in 1974, and to the Stanford University Library Archives, which now holds the Weiss notes, for granting me renewed access to them. As Professor Biemel had also done, I have occasionally used these extra resources to clarify the published text.
In bringing into Engli