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Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning is a key text for the origins of Martin Heidegger's concept of facticity. Originally submitted as a postdoctoral thesis in 1915, it focuses on the 13th-century philosopher-theologian John Duns Scotus.
Heidegger first analyzes Scotus's doctrine of categories, then offers a meticulous explanation of the Grammatica Speculativa, a work of medieval grammar now known to be authored by the Modist grammarian Thomas of Erfurt. Taken together, these investigations represent an early foray into Heidegger's lifelong philosophical concerns, the question of being in the guise of the problem of categories and the question of language in the guise of the doctrine of meaning.
This new and unique translation of one of Heidegger's earliest works offers an important look at his early thinking before the question of being became his central concern and will appeal to readers exploring Heidegger's philosophical development, medieval philosophy, phenomenological interpretations of the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of language.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Translator's Preface
Acknowledgments
Foreword to the First Edition of
Frühe Schriften (1972)
Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning Foreword
Introduction: The Necessity of Examining Scholasticism from the Perspective of the History of Problems
Part I: The Doctrine of Categories
First Chapter: The Unum: Mathematical, Natural, and Metaphysical Reality
Second Chapter: The Verum: Logical and Psychic Reality
Third Chapter: Linguistic Form and Linguistic Content: The Domain of Meaning
Part II: The Doctrine of Meaning
First Chapter: Meaning and Meaning Function: Principles of the Doctrine of Meaning
Second Chapter: The Doctrine of the Forms of Meanings
Conclusion: The Problem of Categories
Author's Notice
Bibliographical References
Editor's Afterword
English-German Glossary
German-English Glossary
Index of Names
Subject Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher and one of the most important European thinkers of the twentieth century.
