Monday, June 21, 2010

Hegel and Heidegger

One of the oddities of Heidegger's published works is the lengthy chapter from Hegel published in Heidegger's 1957 Holzwege.  The small book includes the entire introductory chapter which follows Hegel's foreword to his Phenomenology of Spirit.

I have added a page at phil.aule-browser.com which contains both the entire passage and a viewport into the book Holzwege at Google Books. From month to month there is no saysing how many or which pages of the 1942/43 Hegel lecture will be visible at Google.

As with most other pages at aule-browser, this one requires the Curl browser plugin.

This is a rare chance to publish many pages of Heidegger with no concern for copyright on the German text of "Phaenomenologie des Geistes".

I will add an "aule" for selecting variant pages, such as a page with "Erfahrung" indexed.

Heidegger's works are notable for their lack of scholarly apparatus, such as a mere index of names or a bibliography. Such an apparatus would be a technique within the trappings of modern philosophy and was deemed in-the-way for "the path of thinking".

Had the French occupying forces denied Heidegger royalties from his wartime works or abrogated his copyrights, this would not be an issue today - but the published works remain in the hands of the Heidegger family.

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