Introduction -- The practice of philosophy -- The pedagogical character of philosophic practice -- The problem of the beginning -- The new pedagogy of the lecture courses -- Fundamental ontology and metaphysics -- Philosophic pedagogy and spiritual leadership -- Education and politics -- Heidegger's introduction to philosophy -- The task of introduction : Einleitung in die Philosophie -- Philosophy and the essence of man -- Heidegger's students -- The crisis of academic studies -- Towards a living philosophizing -- Attunement and (...) history -- Attunement and philosophy -- The need of needlessness -- Student dasein -- Science as questioning confrontation with beings as a whole -- The sources of philosophic courage -- Philosophic pedagogy and historical community -- The conditions of leadership -- Being the conscience of others -- Thrownness and authenticity -- Resoluteness and tradition -- The historicality of community -- Leadership in what is metaphysics. (shrink)