Heidegger’s Concept of Truth

This major new study of Heidegger is the first to examine in detail the concept of existential truth that Heidegger developed in the 1920s. Daniel Dahlstrom offers a critical focus on the genesis, nature, and viability of Heidegger’s radical reconceptualisation. The book has several distinctive and innovative features. First, it is the only study that attempts to understand the logical dimension of Heidegger’s thought in its historical context. Second, no other book-length treatment explores the breadth and depth of Heidegger’s confrontation with Husserl, his erstwhile mentor. Third, the book demonstrates that Heidegger’s deconstruction of Western thinking occurs on three interconnected fronts: truth, being, and time. Dealing with a crucial aspect of the philosophy of one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, this book will be important to all scholars and students of Heidegger, be they in philosophy, theology, or literary studies.

• Deals with a core issue in the philosophy of one of the twentieth-century’s greatest thinkers • Interdisciplinary interest (philosophy, literary studies, theology) • Explores Heidegger’s philosophy within a historical context

1. The logical conception of truth: the logical prejudice and Lotze’s concept of validity; 2. The phenomenological conception of truth: the critical confrontation with Husserl; 3. The hermeneutical understanding of truth: the critical appropriation of Aristotle’s analysis of truth and Assertions; 4. The timeliness of existential truth: disclosing the sense of being preconsiderations: metacategorical distinction and the paradox of thematization, Formal Indications and the task of philosophy, and the concrete universality of being-here; 5. Disclosedness, transcendental philosophy, and methodological deliberations.