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Student Notes from Lectures by Martin Heidegger
MS.M.004
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: Student notes from lectures by Martin Heidegger
Creator:
Hoffmann, Kurt
Identifier/Call Number: MS.M.004
Physical Description:
1.2 Linear Feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1925-1926
Abstract: This collection comprises four bound
mimeographed typescripts of student lecture notes from Martin Heidegger's two special
lectures at the University of Marburg in 1925 and 1926, titled "Logik: die Frage nach der
Wahrheit" and "Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs."
Language of Material:
German .
Collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by
the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish,
please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Student notes from lectures by Martin Heidegger. MS-M004. Special Collections and Archives,
The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information
about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder
descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Gift of Olga Hoffmann in 1976.
Processed by Marcus Keller, 1999. Guide completed by Adrian Turner, 2001.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises four bound mimeographed typescripts of student lecture notes from
Martin Heidegger's two special lectures at the University of Marburg in 1925 and 1926,
titled "Logik: die Frage nach der Wahrheit" and "Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs."
Each special lecture (or Kolleg) is bound in two volumes stamped with the lecture title,
and the date and semester of the lecture. The lectures are transcribed entirely in German,
with the dates of the lectures recorded in the margins. Although the creator of these
typescripts remains unidentified, it is probable that the typescripts were produced either
by or for Kurt Hoffmann, who placed his ownership inscription on the first flyleaf of Logik
I ("Dr. Kurt Hoffmann"). Throughout the volumes are holograph chapter subdivisions in ink in
a contemporary hand, possibly Hoffmann's, in addition to numerous annotations in both Greek
and German. "Logik" was delivered between 5 November 1925 and 26 February 1926, and
"Geschichte" apparently between 4 May 1925 and 31 July 1925.
"Logik" opens with a discussion of the term, followed by discussions of philosophical and
traditional logic; possibility and the meaning of truth; the signification and concept of
psychologism, and Husserl's critique of psychologism; and observations on the locus of
truth, with observations on the term "logos." A program of the lecture is listed on pp.
58-63 (Logik I). "Geschichte" begins with an introduction to phenomenology, the task of
phenomenological research, and the fundamental discoveries of phenomenologists. This lecture
includes such topics as the phenomenon of time, the determination of the concept and its
interpretation; a description of time; and an analysis of theories of time from Aristotle,
Isaac Newton, and Immanuel Kant to Henri Bergson. A program of this lecture is detailed on
pp. 10-12 (Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs I).
Heidegger was a professor at Marburg from 1923 to 1928. The lectures documented here
precede the publication of his landmark
Sein und Zeit (Halle,
1927), and it is of particular interest that many of his ideas concerning the subject of
time expressed in the latter can be found in these transcriptions. Theodore Kisiel has
recently translated this 1925 "Geschichte" lecture into English under the title
History of the concept of time (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1985). Heidegger delivered a lecture titled "Logik" again in the summer semester of
1928, which was also later translated and published (see Michael Heim,
The metaphysical foundations of logic, Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1984).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Metaphysics
Phenomenology
Philosophy, German -- 20th century
Philosophers.
Time
Logic
Husserl, Edmund -- Criticism and interpretation
Heidegger, Martin -- Archives