Towards the definition of philosophy : with a transcript of the lecture-course 'On the nature of the university and academic study'

The three 1919 lectures contained in this text represent the earliest documentary record of the ideas, and of the general conception of philosophy, which finds expression in Heidegger's work of 1927, "Being and Time". In the lecture "The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview", Heidegger takes his first steps beyond orthodox Husserlian phenomenology towards a pre-theoretical "primordial science" which would lay bare the ordinary structures of human experience. "Phenomenology and Transcendental Philopsophy of Value" undertakes a phenomenological critique of contemporary neo-Kantian "philosophy of value", particluarly as represented by Widelband and Ricket. The third lecture, "In the Nature of the University and Academic Study" presents further phenomenological considerations on scientific research and theoretical experience