Abstract

This serious, well-researched study unearths the theme of historicity in Heidegger's writings; it regards this issue as belonging to the whole of his way of thinking and to the "matter" of thinking defining his philosophy. Though the exploration proceeds according to a chronological order of the texts in question, it leads to more than a collection of insights found in Heidegger's works. In fact, this investigation succeeds in discerning the background, the hermeneutic notion, and the implications of historicity as endemic to the meditation of the question of being, to the rethinking of the history of philosophy, and of what is at stake in gaining access to it.