Heidegger's Hermeneutics of Facticity

Over the last two decades, a new generation of commentators of Heidegger's early writings (among them Christian Sommer, Sophie-Jan Arrien, Francisco de Lara, etc.) has cast some doubt on the relevance of a reading that is mainly, and sometimes merely, retrospective. Conversely, those new commentators favored an “immanent” reading. This allowed them to emphasize the specificity of the methodology, concepts, and philosophical objects to be found in what is now commonly known as Heidegger’s “phenomenology of life,” or “hermeneutics of facticity.”
Expanding on this recent reading, the present book aims to shed new light on Heidegger’s early philosophy by analysing some of its fundamental concepts. Heidegger’s early writings present themselves as a radical reformulation of the task of philosophy in general, and that implies a whole new set of concepts. This volume will focus on the peculiar and ad hoc vocabulary of Heidegger’s hermeneutics of facticity. However, its purpose is less to draw up a kind of Lexikon than to examine the “conceptual signature” of Heidegger’s hermeneutics of facticity within the history of philosophy.