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A Heidegger Dictionary
Michael Inwood
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Contents
Acknowledgements vi
System of abbreviations vii
Notes on the use of this book xvi
Heidegger and his language 1
DICTIONARY ENTRIES 13
Further reading 251
General index 253
Index of foreign words and expressions 269
Acknowledgements
I wish to acknowledge some debts. William Inwood (1918-1993) per-
suaded me to study ancient Greek, long before I recognized its import-
ance for the understanding of German philosophy. My colleagues at
Trinity College granted me sabbatical leave to complete the book and
have given me much help and encouragement. In dedicating this book to
my wife, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, I express my gratitude for her
constant support and advice.
Trinity College, Oxford
May, 1999
System of abbreviations
In references to Heidegger's texts, a slash separates the pagination of the
German work from the pagination of the published English translation.
In many translations, especially of BT and the volumes of the Gesamtaus-
gabe, the German pagination is recorded. Where this is the case, I have
given only the German pagination in my references. My translations often
differ from those in the published translation.
Volumes of Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe, the 'complete edition' pub-
lished by Klostermann in Frankfurt from 1975 on, I usually cite by roman
numerals, as follows:
I Yol.LFruhe Schrifien, ed. F.-W. von Herrmann (1978), contain-
ing writings from 1912-16.
XV Vol. 15:Seminare, ed. C. Ochwadt (1986), containing seminars
from 1951 -73/partially translated in M. Heidegger and E. Fink,
Heraclitus Seminar, tr. CH. Seibert (Evanston: Northwestern
University Press, 1993)
XVII Vol.17 '-.Einfuhrung in die phanomenologische Forschung, ed. F.-W.
von Herrmann (1994), lectures of 1923-4
XIX Vol.19-.Platon: Sophistes, ed. I.Schùssler (1992), lectures of
1924-5/Plato's 'Sophist', tr. R. Rojcewicz and A. Schuwer (Bloo-
mington: Indiana University Press, 1997)
XX lo.20.Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs, ed. P. Jaeger
(1979: 2nd ed. 1988), lectures of 1925/Hutory of the Concept of
Time: Prolegomena, tr. T. Kisiel (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1985)
XXI Vol.21 .Logik. Die Frage nach der Wahrheit, ed. W. Biemel (1976),
lectures of 1925-6/Logic: The Question of Truth, tr. T. Sheehan
and R. Lilly (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forth-
coming)
XXII Io.22:Die Grundbegriffe der antiken Philosophie, ed. F.-K. Blust
(1993), lectures of 1926
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XXIV Vol.24:Z)i« Grundprobleme der Phànomenologie, ed. F.-W. von
Herrmann (1975: 2nd ed. 1989), lectures of 19271 The Basic
Problems of Phenomenology, tr. A. Hofstadter (Bloomington: Indi-
ana University Press, 1982)
XXV Vol. 25:Phanomenologische Interpretation von Kants Kritik der reinen
Vernunft, ed. I. Gôrland (1977: 2nd ed. 1987), lectures of
1927-8/ Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's 'Critique of Pure
Reason', tr. P. Emad and K. Maly (Bloomington: Indiana Univer-
sity Press, 1997)
XXVI Vol.26\Metaphysische Anfangsgriinde der Logik im Ausgang von Leib-
niz, ed. K Held (1978: 2nd ed. 1990), lectures of 19281 The
Metaphysical Foundations of Logic, tr. M. Heim (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1984)
XXVII Vol.27-.Einleitung in die Philosophie, ed. 0. Saame and I. Saame-
Speidel (1996), lectures of 1928-9
XXVIII Vol. 28:Der deutsche Idealismus (Fichte, Schelling Hegel) und die
philosophische Problemlage der Gegenwart, ed. C. Strube (1997),
lectures of 1929
XXIX Vol.29/30:Di« Grundbegriffe derMetaphysik. Welt-Endlichkeit-Einsa-
mkeit, ed. F.-W. von Herrmann (1983), lectures of 1929-30/ The
Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World-Finitude-solitude, tr. W.
McNeill and N. Walker (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1994)
XXXI Vol. 31 : Van Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit. Einleitung in die Philo-
sophie, ed. H. Tietjen (1982), lectures of 1930
XXXII Vol.S2:Hegels Phànomenologie des Geistes, ed. I. Gôrland (1980),
lectures of 1930-/1 Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit', tr. P. Emad
and K Maly (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988)
XXXIII Vol.33:Amtotefe$: Metaphysik 0 1-3: Vom Wesen und Wirklichkeit
der Kraft, ed. H. Huni (1981), lectures of 1931/Aristotle's Meta-
physics 0 1-3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force, tr. W. Brogan
and P. Warnek (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996)
XXXrV Vol.34: Vom Wesen der Wahrheit. Zu Piatons Hòhlengleichnis und
Theatet, ed. H. Môrchen (1988), lectures of 1931-2
XXXIX Vo\.S9:Hôlderlins Hymnen 'Germanien'und DerRhein', ed. S. Zie-
gler (1980: 2nd ed. 1989), lectures of 1934-5
XLV Vol.45:Grundfragen der Philosophie. Ausgewâhlte 'Probleme' der
'Logik', ed. F.-W. von Herrmann (1984: 2nd ed. 1992), lectures
ofl937-8/ Basic Questions ofP hilosophy: Selected 'Problems 'of 'Logic ',
tr. R. Rojcewicz and A. Schuwer (Bloomington: Indiana Univer-
sity Press, 1994)
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XLIX Vo\A9:Die Metaphysik des deutschen Idealismus (Schelling), ed. G.
Seubold (1991), lectures of 1941
LI Vol.51 :Grundbegriffe, ed. P. Jaeger (1981:2nd ed. 1991), lectures
of 1941/.BaSM; Concepts, tr. G. E. Aylesworth (Bloomington: Indi-
ana University Press, 1993)
LrV Vo\M:Parmenides, ed. M. S. Frings (1982), lectures of 1942-3/
Parmenides, tr. R. Rojcewicz and A. Schuwer (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1992)
LV Vol.55 :Heraklit. Der Anf ang der abendlàndischen Denkens. Logik.
Heraklits Lehre vom Logos, ed. M. S. Frings (1979), lectures of
1943 and 1944
LVI Vol.56/57: Zur Bestimmung der Philosophie, ed. B. Heimbuchel
(1987), lectures of 1919
LVIII \o\.58:Grundprobleme der Phànomenologie, ed. H.-H. Gander
(1992), lectures of 1919-20
LTX Vol.59:Phànomenobgie der Anschauung und des Ausdrucks. Theorie
derphilosophischen Begriffsbildung, ed. C. Strube (1993), lectures
of 1920
LX Voi60:Phànomenologie des religiôsen Lebens, ed. M. Jung, T.
Regehly and C. Strube (1995), lectures of 1918-9, 1920-1, 1921
LXI Vo 1.61 :Phànomenobgische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles. Einfûhrung
in diephànomenologische Forschung, ed. W. and K. Brôcker (1985),
lectures of 1921-2
LXIII Vol.63: Ontotogie (Hermeneutik der Faktizitàt), ed. K Brôcker
(1988), lectures of 1923/Ontology (Hermeneutics of Facticity), tr. J.
van Buren (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995)
LXV Vo\.65:Beitràge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), ed. F.-W. von
Herrmann (1989), manuscripts of 1936-8
Other works by, and translations of, Heidegger:
Anax 'Der Spruch des Anaximander', in H, 296-343/The Anaximan-
der Fragment' in M. Heidegger, Early Greek Thinking, tr.
D.F.Krell and F.A. Capuzzi (New York: Harper & Row, 1984),
13-58 (A lecture of 1946)
AWP 'Die Zeit des Weltbildes' in H, 69-104/The Age of the World
Picture', in qct, 115-154 (A lecture of 1938)
BT Sein und Zeit (15th ed. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1979)/Being and
Time, tr. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson (Oxford: Blackwell,
1962) (Joan Stambaugh's new translation (Albany: State Univer-
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SYSTEM OF ABBREVIATIONS
sity of New York Press, 1996) appeared too late for me to make
use of it.) (First published in 1927)
CT Der Be griff der Zeit/The Concept of Time, tr. W. McNeill (Blackwell,
Oxford, 1992). (A bilingual edition of a lecture of 1924)
D 'Das Ding', in VA, 157-179/The Thing', in pit, 165-186 (A
lecture of 1950)
DS Die Kategorien- und Bedeutungslehre des Duns Scotus, in I, Friihe
Schriften, 189-412 (Duns Scotus's Doctrines of Categories and Mean-
ing. Heidegger's habilitation dissertation of 1915)
EB M. Heidegger, Existence and Being (London: Vision Press, 1949)
(Four essays by Heidegger with extensive commentary by W.
Brock)
ECP 'Vom Wesen und Begriff der Phusis. Aristoteles, Physik, B, 1', in
W, 237-299. ('On the Essence and Concept of Phusis: Aristoue,
Physics, B,l': Written in 1939, first published in 1958)
EHP Erlâuterungen zu Hôlderlins Dichtung (Frankfurt: Klostermann,
1981) (Elucidations of Hôlderlins Poetry: a collection of essays,
based on lectures from 1936 on)
ep The End of Philosophy, tr. J. Stambaugh (Harper & Row: New
York, 1973), containing Nil, 399-490, and OM from VA, 71-99
EPTT 'Das Ende der Philosophie und die Aufgabe des Denkens', in
M. Heidegger, Zur Sache des Denkens (Tubingen: Niemeyer,
1969), 61-80/'the End of Philosophy and the Task of Think-
ing', in Krell, 431-449
ER Vom Wesen des Grundes/The Essence of Reasons, tr. T. Malick
(Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969) (A bilingual
edition of an essay first published in 1929)
ET 'Vom Wesen der Wahrheit' in W, 175-199/'On the Essence of
Truth', in Krell, 115-138 (First published in 1943, on the basis
of a lecture of 1930)
G Gelassenheit (Pfullingen: Neske, 1992) /Discourse on Thinking, tr.
J.M. Anderson and E.H. Freund (New York: Harper & Row,
1966) (G was first published in 1959, on the basis of a lecture
of 1955 and a dialogue written in 1944-5)
H Holzwege (5th ed. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1972) (A collection
of 'wood paths', paths for collecting wood from a forest, hence
paths that lead nowhere or 'wrong tracks', first published in
1950)
HB M. Heidegger and E. Blochmann, Briefwechsel: 1918-1969, ed.
J.W. Storck (Marbach am Neckar: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft,
1990) (Heidegger's correspondence with Elisabeth Blochmann)
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HCE 'Hegels Begriff der Erfahrung', in H, 105-192/Hegel's Concept of
Experience, tr. J. Glenn Gray (New York: Harper & Row, 1970)
(Based on lectures of 1942-3)
HEP 'Hôlderlin und das Wesen der Dichtung', in EHP, 3 3-48/
'Hôlderlin and the Essence of Poetry', tr. D. Scott, in EB,
293-315 (A lecture of 1936)
HJ M. Heidegger and K. Jaspers, Briefwechsel: 1920-1963, ed. W.
Biemel and H. Saner (Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1990) (Heideg-
ger's correspondence with Jaspers)
ID Identitat und Differenz (Pfullingen: Neske, 1957) /Identity and
Difference, tr. J. Stambaugh (New York: Harper & Row, 1969)
(Based on seminars of 1956-7)
IM Einfuhrung in die Metaphysik (5th ed. Tubingen: Niemeyer,
1987) /An Introduction to Metaphysics, tr. R. Manheim (New York:
Doubleday, 1961) (First published in 1953 on the basis of
lectures of 1935)
K Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik (5th ed. Frankfurt: Kloster-
mann, 1991)/Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, tr. R. Taft
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990) (First published
in 1929. The later editions contain other essays, including the
debate with Cassirer)
Krell M. Heidegger, Basic Writings, ed. D.F. Krell (2nd ed. London:
Routledge, 1993)
KTB 'Kants These iiber das Sein', in W, 439-473 (Kant's Thesis
about Being': first published in 1962 on the basis of a lecture of
1961)
LH 'Brief iiber den Humanismus', in W, 311-360/'Letter on
Humanism', tr. F.A. Capuzzi, in Krell, 217-265 (First published
in 1947)
NI, Nil Nietzsche, vols.I and II (Pfullingen: Neske, 1961)/translated in
ni-niv, and ep
ni Nietzsche, vol.1: The Will to Power as Art, tr. D.F. Krell (London:
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981)
nii Nietzsche, vol.11: The Eternal Recurrence of the Same, tr. D.F. Krell
(San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984)
niii Nietzsche, vol. Ill : The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics,
tr. J. Stambaugh, D.F. Krell, F.A. Capuzzi (San Francisco: Harper
& Row, 1987)
niv Nietsche, \o\.TV:Nihilism, tr. F.A. Capuzzi (San Francisco: Harper
& Row, 1982)
OM Ûberwindung der Metaphysik', in VA, 67-95/'Overcoming
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