Each article in this book usually discusses more than one German word, together with their English (and often Greek and Latin) equivalents. Some words are grouped together because they fall under a single broad heading (e.g. SPACE AND SPATIALITY), sometimes because two or more similar seeming words are used by Heidegger in different ways and need to be distinguished (e.g. FATE AND DESTINY, or SIGNS AND HINTS). Not surprisingly, in view of Heidegger's belief that every philosophical question rais…
Read moreEach article in this book usually discusses more than one German word, together with their English (and often Greek and Latin) equivalents. Some words are grouped together because they fall under a single broad heading (e.g. SPACE AND SPATIALITY), sometimes because two or more similar seeming words are used by Heidegger in different ways and need to be distinguished (e.g. FATE AND DESTINY, or SIGNS AND HINTS). Not surprisingly, in view of Heidegger's belief that every philosophical question raises every other philosophical question, I have often found it difficult to confine the discussion of a topic to a single article. Thus I have often indicated a cross‐reference from one article to another by capitalizing a word that appears in the title of another relevant article. The occurrence of ‘PRESENT‐AT‐HAND’ means: Consult the article whose title contains the expression ‘present‐at‐hand’. The main discussions of difficult words and concepts are also indicated in the General Index.
