Session One
Place: Zoom
Time: Friday 19.00-21.00 (CET)
Dates: June 13, 20, and 27, July 4, 11, 18, and 25, August 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29, September 12, and 26, and October 10, 2025
Fee: 150 Euro for all sessions, 120 Euro for patrons, 80 Euro for students and low income. It is possible to attend the first session for free. Participants can receive a certificate of participation.
This lecture course will be a full-scale interpretation of Heidegger’s Life and Thinking from 1889 until 1928. It will be the first volume of a three-volume book project. In it I will trace Heidegger’s way of thinking from the beginning until the end of the Marburg period in 1928, that is, after the publication of Being and Time. I will pay special attention to the philosophical investigations in their relatedness and unity. Heidegger is always working on different projects at the same time. Besides an interpretation of Heidegger’s way of thinking I will also delve into his biography and show how is life and thinking are intertwined and shed light on each other.
The chaptures will be made available to the participants.
1. Finding his way (1889-1915)
a. A small town called Meßkirch
b. From Constance to Freiburg
c. The start of an academic career
2. Philosophy as vocation (1915-1919)
a. Obtaining a license to teach
b. Life as a private teacher
c. End of the Great War and a new beginning
3. Coming into his own (1919-1923)
a. What is philosophy?
b. Between the Greeks and Christianity
c. The prospect of a professorship
4. The history of Being and Time (1924-1926)
a. From a book on Aristotle to the Concept of Time
b. Kant and the Transcendental Perspective
c. The accident of Being and Time
5. The foundation of metaphysics (1926-1928)
a. After Being and Time
b. From Kant to Leibniz: Metontology and the Metaphysics of Dasein
c. Ordinarius in Freiburg