Session Seven: Heidegger, Phenomenology of Intuition and Expression, 84-97

 Place: Zoom 

Dates: Friday October 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31 and November 7, 14, and 21, 2025 

Time: 17.00-19.00 (CET). 

Fee: 120 Euro, 90 Euro for patrons, and 60 Euro for students and low income. Participants can receive a certificate of participation. You can attend the first session for free. 

Course Texts

Martin Heidegger, Phenomenology of Intuition and Expression, London 2010. 

Martin Heidegger, Phänomenologie der Anschauung und des Ausdrucks (GA 59), Frankfurt am Main 1993. 

The importance that Heidegger obviously attached to this lecture course is expressed in the title note “Investigation of the concept of phenomenological philosophy – First Investigation”. It may, of course, be assumed that the all too obvious, however probably originally intended association with Husserl's Logical Investigations was the cause for dropping this relation again. Nevertheless this tentatively noted superordinate title captures very well the intention of the lecture course so that one can really say that this lecture course has a key role. More  intensively than in any of the preceding and following lecture courses the new core of the phenomenological method, namely the phenomenological destruction which in turn leads into a phenomenological judication, is presented and treated upon. 

The retained lecture title is to be understood from the preceding lecture course “Basic Problems of Phenomenology” in which science in general was determined as expression complex of life and phenomenology in particular as origin-science of life per se. The part of the title “Phenomenology of Expression” therefore relates to the particular character of phenomenological concepts, that is to be concepts of expression and not concepts of order. The part of the title “Phenomenology of Intuition” refers in turn to that through which these concepts are formed, namely the phenomenological understanding, which is as understanding of the origin an “intuiting