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By Egor Falyov
Translated by Jafe Arnold
323 pages / Released May 2025 / Available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook.
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From his early engagement with phenomenology to his later poetic meditations, Martin Heidegger’s way of thinking is as complex and challenging as it is enchanting and inviting. In his endeavor to revive the question of Being, Heidegger radically reinterpreted the character of philosophy and intimated the hermeneutic nature of human existence, transforming hermeneutics from the conventional exegesis of texts into a pathway of experiencing Being in every corner of philosophy, poetry, and everyday life.
In Heidegger’s Hermeneutics, Egor Falyov explores the development of Heidegger’s hermeneutic philosophizing and traces the method of interpretation that unfolds along its pathways. Shedding light on the turning points of Heidegger’s understanding of Dasein, history, and language, Falyov offers a lucid introduction to Heidegger’s thought as well as a critical study of its nuances and tensions. Weaving together diverse contexts and contentions, this wide-ranging study addresses the crossroads between Heidegger’s hermeneutics and key moments in Western as well as Eastern philosophy, highlighting the enduring relevance of Heidegger’s open-ended interpreting.
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Table of Contents
Preface to the English Edition
Methodological Introduction: A Few Principles of Martin Heidegger’s Historico-Philosophical Method
I. Heidegger’s Early Hermeneutics (1919-1924)
§1. The Sources that Directly Influenced Heidegger’s Hermeneutic Philosophy
§2. The Role of Husserl’s Phenomenology in the Formation of Heidegger’s Hermeneutics
§3. The Interpretation of Actuality in Heidegger’s Early Hermeneutics
§4. Heidegger’s “Discovery” of the Principle of “Temporality” (Historicity)
II. Hermeneutics in the Period of Being and Time (1925-1929)
§1. Prolegomena to the History of the Concept of Time (1925): Posing the Question of Being
§2. Working out the Question of Being by Hermeneutic Means
§3. The Analytic of Dasein in its Temporality (Historicity)
§4. “Projecting” as the Basic Structure of the Being of Dasein
§5. “Hermeneutic Ontology” or “Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Dasein” in Being and Time
§6. The Hermeneutic Solution to the Problem of Grounding Metaphysics in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics
§7. The Existential Hermeneutics of Nothing in the Works of 1929 (“What is Metaphysics?” and The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics)
III. Heidegger’s Philosophy of Language
§1. The Essence of the “Turn” in Heidegger’s Philosophy: Prerequisites and Consequences
§2. Heidegger’s Hermeneutics after the “Turn”: Creating a “Non-Conceptual” Language
§3. Language and Being
§4. The Relation of Thing and Word in Heidegger’s Later Hermeneutics
§5. “Interpreting Actuality” after the Turn
§6. Heidegger on the “Neighborhood” of Thinking and Poetry
§7. The “Hermeneutics of Language”
IV. Heidegger’s Philosophy of History
§1. The Problem of Time in Heidegger’s Philosophy and his Philosophy of History
§3. The Emergence of Metaphysics and the Meaning of History
§4. The Events of the History of Being and their Corresponding Epochs
§5. Interpreting Hölderlin’s Poetry
Conclusion: The Outcomes of Heideggerian Hermeneutics
Bibliography
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Prof. Dr. Egor Falyov is the deputy director of the Department for the History of Foreign Philosophy at Moscow State University. Heidegger’s Hermeneutics, based on his doctoral dissertation and lecture courses, was awarded Moscow State University’s Shuvalov Prize in 2008. Falyov has authored and co-authored several textbooks on the history of philosophy and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Philosophy and Society. In addition to his specialization in Western philosophy, Falyov’s scholarship extends to Hindu and Buddhist philosophy, which he has studied at the Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Institute and the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in India.