Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany. He is the author of several books on Gadamer, Heidegger, hermeneutics, and social and political philosophy.

Jerome Veith is completing his doctorate in philosophy at Boston College.

Translator's Foreword

Editor's Preface

Introduction by Günter Figal

1. The Environmental Experience

2. Indication of the Hermeneutical Situation

3. The Problem of Being and Time

4. Transcendence

5. Description of the Situation: Fundamental Attunement

6. The Projection of Being in Science and Art

7. Rectorship Address: The Self-Assertion of the German University

8. Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry

9. On the Origin of the Work of Art: First Version

10. "As When on a Holiday . . ."

11. Ereignis

12. On Ernst Jünger (1)

13. On Ernst Jünger (2)

14. The Age of the World Picture

15. On Nietzsche

16. Logos and Language

17. Bremen Lectures: Insight into That Which Is

18. The Principle of Identity

19. The Language of Johann Peter Hebel

20. Letter to Father William J. Richardson

21. Art and Space

22. Cézanne

Supplements

1. Der Spiegel Interview with Martin Heidegger

2. Chronology of Heidegger's Life

3. Sources for the Present Volume

4. The Heidegger Gesamtausgabe and English Translations