Grandbegriffe. Gesamtausgabe, Band 51 (review)

BOOK REVIEWS 421 for a clear picture of this cosmopolitan figure to emerge seems to indicate that we are long overdue for a definitive edition of his unpublished writings. Each of the essays in this volume is an implicit critique of the cavalier manner in which the Wittgenstein Nachla]3 has been handled. This little book will be of interest to everyone concerned with Wittgenstein's intellectual development or with the implications of his thought. It is not as though there is nothing controversial in the theses developed in Wittgenstein and his Times. But it should serve to encourage further discussion of Wittgenstein's relationship to figures such as Kierkegaard, James and Lichtenberg, by whom we know he was influenced, as well as figures like Diithey and Marx with whom he bears comparison in certain significant respects. That marks the importance of this volume. ALLAN JANIK Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria Martin Heidegger. Grandbegriffe. Gesamtausgabe, Band 5 l, edited by Petra Jaegar, (Frankfurt a.M.: Vittorio Klostermann, 198 t), 126 pp. Most of the previously unpublished volumes to appear thus far in the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe derive from the period of Sein und Zeit (1927). The five volumes of lectures from the Marburg period (1923-98) that have already appeared'make it clear how decisive Heidegger's lectures were in the preparation of his published writings and how significant they are, consequently, for the interpretation of those writings. Most notably, one realizes in reading the Marburg lectures how much Heidegger 's development of his problematic in and immediately after Sein und Zeit was carried out as an interrogation of the history of Western philosophy. This is perhaps clearest of all in Die Grundprobleme der Phi~nomenologie: here Heidegger generates almost the entire problematic of Sein und Zeit by beginning with four traditional theses about Being and subjecting these theses to phenomenological critique. ~ In addition to the volumes of Marburg lectures (several volumes have also appeared 'Band 2o: Prolegomenazur Geschichtedes Zeitbegriffs 0925). Band 21: Logtk: Die Frage nach der Wahrheit (x925-26). Band 24: Die Grundprobleme der Phiinomenolog2e (1927). Band 25: Phi~nomenologischeInterpretation yon Kants Kritik der reinen Vernun]t (1927-28). Band 26: MetaphysischeAnfangsgri2nde der Logik im Ausgang yon Leibniz (i 928). An English translation of Volume 24 has recently appeared: The Basic Problemsof Phenomenology, tr. Albert Hofstadter (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982). Translations of Volumes 2o, 2l, and 26 are in preparation and will be published by Indiana University Press. In addition to the lectures, which will constitute Abteilung II of the Gesamtausgabe, the writings published by Heidegger himself are also being reissued (some with marginal notes) as Abteilung I. Two additional Abteilungen are projected: III. Unver6ffentliche Abhandlungen, IV. Aufzeichnungen und Hinweise. See my review of this volume, "Radical Phenomenology and Fundamental Ontology: Review of Die Grundprobleme der Phtinomenologie by Martin Heidegger," Research in Phenomenol0g3 , VI 0976), 139-149. 422 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY containing lectures from the subsequent Freiburg period, mostly from the early years of that period, the early 193os.3 With the exception of the volume containing the two sets of lectures on Heraclitus that Heidegger used as the basis for his two well-known essays on Heraclitus,4 Grundbegriffe (194t) is the only later text to appear thus far. The Gesamtausgabe is not a critical edition but rather an Ausgabe letzter Hand, an edition in which the published text is in each case based primarily on the last version worked on by Heidegger himself. In preparing the texts for publication the editors have also made use of transcriptions of stenographic notes taken by Heidegger's students and checked by Heidegger himself. The editors have also divided each text into chapters and sections, and provided titles for these. In these and other respects the edition is said to follow guidelines given by Heidegger himself,5 though as yet these guidelines have not been published. In view of the fact that the Gesamtausgabe does not provide a critical text, it is especially to be hoped that scholars will soon be allowed free access to the archives in Marbach. The text of Grundbegriffe is based on a transcription prepared by Fritz Heidegger in 1944 and subsequently revised by Martin Heidegger...