Basic Questions of Philosophy Selected Problems of Logic

This book is a translation of the text of Martin Heidegger’s lecture course of the same tide from the Winter semester 1937 1938 at the University of Freiburg. The German original appeared posthumously in 1984 (with a second edition in 1992) as volume 45 of Heidegger’s “Collected Works” (Gesamtausgabe).

The volumes in the Gesamtausgabe are not appearing as critical editions. The reason is that it is their express intention to facilitate a direct contact between the reader and the work of Heidegger and to allow, as much as is possible, nothing extraneous to intervene. Thus, in particular, they include no interpretative or introductory essays. All editorial matter is kept to an absolute minimum, and there are no indexes. The words of Heidegger are reconstructed with as much faithfulness as the editor can bring to the task, and they are then simply left to speak for themselves.