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Martin Heidegger is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th Century. A major figure in the development of phenomenology, his work also profoundly influenced many of the intellectual movements that followed in his wake, from Sartre's Existentialism to Derrida's deconstructionism. Towards the Definition of Philosophy brings together two seminal lectures that mark a breakthrough moment in Heidegger's thought and introduces the major themes that he would develop in his opus Being and Time.

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is regarded as one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers.

Translator's Foreword \ Publisher's Note \ I. The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview \ Preliminary Remarks \ Introduction \ Part I. The Idea of Philosophy as Primordial Science \ 1. The Search for a Methodological Way \ 2. Critique of Teleological-Critical Method \ Part II. Phenomenology as Pre-Theoretical Primordial Science \ 1. Analysis of the Structure of Experience \ 2. The Problem of Presuppositions \ 3. Primordial Science as Pre-Theoretical Science \ II. Phenomenology and Transcendental Philosophy of Value \ Introduction \ Part I. Historical Presentation of the Problem \ 1. The Genesis of Philosophy of Value as the Cultural Philosophy of the Present \ 2. Windelband's Grounding of Modern Transcendental Philosophy of Value \ 3. The Further Development of Value-Philosophy by Rickert \ Part II. Critical Considerations \ Appendix I: On the Nature of the University and Academic Study \ Appendix II: The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview \ Short Glossary \ Index.