This is a book and excellently documented extensive tour offers an overview of the genesis and evolution of the young Heidegger's work and his early confrontation with the philosophical tradition, theology, neo-Kantianism, vitalism, hermeneutics and phenomenology. On the genealogy thread the question of the meaning of being, this book articulates, in a truly comprehensive, thematic and methodological core of Heidegger's early work from an exhaustive study of his early writings and an open discussion with the newest secondary literature._x000D_
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Beyond the interesting interpretations of Augustine Heidegger, Paul, Luther, Descartes, Kant, Dilthey, Lask and, above all, Aristotle and Husserl, Heidegger thought the young man raises a number of philosophical problems today still occupy a central role in the contemporary debate: from the innovative idea of philosophy as hermeneutic phenomenology, the problem of concept formation and the notion of interpretation to the destruction of metaphysics, the importance of the method and its significance for all philosophical inquiry.