Martin Heidegger - History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena

History
of the
Concept of Time

Studies in Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy

GENERAL EDITOR

JAMES M. EDIE

CONSULTING EDITORS

CONSULTANTS FOR HEIDEGGER TRANSLATIONS

Albert Hofstadter
Theodore Kisiel
John Sallis
Thomas Sheehan

Martin Heidegger

Prolegomena

TRANSLATED BY

Theodore Kisiel

Preparation of this book was aided by a grant from the Program for Translations of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency.

A translators introduction to this volume, by Theodore Kisiel, is published separately as On the Way to Being and Time: Introduction to the Translation of Heideggers Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs, Research in Phenomenology XV (1985).

Published in German as Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Heidegger, Martin, 18891976.
[Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs. English]
History of the concept of time : prolegomena / Martin Heidegger ; translated by
Theodore Kisiel. 1st Midland book ed.
p. cm. (Studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy)
Translation of: Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs.
ISBN 978-0-253-32730-7. ISBN 978-0-253-20717-3 (pbk.)
1. Time. 2. Phenomenology. I. Title. II. Series.
B3279.H48P7613 1992 91-34210

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Analysis of the Phenomenon of Time
and Derivation of the Concept of Time

Preparatory Description of the Field in Which
the Phenomenon of Time Becomes Manifest

The text here translated is that of a course of lectures that Heidegger gave at the University of Marburg during the summer semester 1925. The title of the course was Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs. The course also bore the subtitle Prolegomena zu einer Phnomenologie von Geschichte und Natur.

The German text was prepared for publication by Petra Jaeger on the basis of Heideggers handwritten manuscript and Simon Mosers transcription of the lectures, which was authorized and supplemented by Heidegger himself; it was published in 1979 as volume 20 of Heideggers Gesamtausgabe under the. title Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs. As with the entire Gesamtausgabe, the intention was to present not a critical edition of the text but a text prepared from the manuscript as Heidegger left it, supplemented editorially by the available transcriptions but without critical apparatus. For further information regarding the preparation of the text, the reader may consult the Editors Epilogue, which follows the translation of the text. The reader may also want to consult the extended discussion of this text in Theodore Kisiels essay, On the Way to Being and Time: Introduction to the Translation of Heideggers Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs, Research in Phenomenology XV (1985).

The lecture course, as Heidegger outlines it in 3, was to have consisted of three parts, the first deriving the concept of time, the second disclosing the history of the concept of time, the third elaborating the horizon for the question of being in general and of the being of history and nature in particular. In the actual lectures Heidegger completed only an extended Introduction (entitled by the editor: Preliminary Part) and the first of the three projected parts (entitled by the editor: Main Part). In the Preliminary Part Heidegger presents what is perhaps his most extended discussion and critique of Husserls phenomenology. The Main Part represents the penultimate draft of Division One (and a sketchy beginning of Division Two) of Being and Time, which was published less than two years after the completion of the lecture course. Although in the lectures some precise matters of terminology such as the distinction between uncoveredness or discoveredness (Entdecktheit) and disclosedness (Erschlossenheit) are not yet fixed in the form they will have in Being and Time, there are major portions of this text that were taken over into Being and Time with only moderate revision. The Main Part of the course is thus itself an elaboration of the celebrated lecture that Heidegger gave to the theology faculty at the University of Marburg in July 1924, less than a year after he arrived. This lecture, The Concept of Time, is the one that Gadamer has called the original form (Urform) of Being and Time. It is now known that in the months after he presented it, Heidegger used it as the basis for an essay with the same title but several times the length of the lecture. It was presumably this essay, which remained unpublished and until recently unknown, that formed the immediate basis for the Main Part of History of the Concept of Time.

The notes and note numbering of the German edition are reproduced in the present translation, but errors have been corrected and bibliographical information has been added as needed. References are given to extant English translations of the texts cited in the lecture course, although the quoted passages have been freshly translated here. The numbered footnotes reproduce those in the German edition; additional remarks by the translator are appended in square brackets, which also set off translators insertionse.g., the German word, translations from the Latin, clarifying phrases and numeralsin the body of the text. The numbers in the running heads refer to the pagination of the German edition. The rare additional remark by Heidegger or by the German editor incorporated into the body of the text, typically in the citations, is indicated by braces: { }. Notes added by the translator are indicated by asterisks. The articulation of the text into divisions and chapters is taken from Heidegger himself; the division into numbered sections, the titles of these sections, and the further subdivisions were added by Jaeger.