Heidegger is widely regarded as the 20th Century's most original philosopher. Towards the Definition of Philosophy brings together - in their first English translation - two of his seminal lecture courses, The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview and Phenomenology and Transcendental Philosophy Value, as well as the lecture, On the Nature of the University and Academic Study. The volume also includes a short glossary.

Translator's Foreword
Publisher's Note
I. The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview
Preliminary Remarks
Introduction
Part I. The Idea of Philosophy as Primordial Science

1. The Search for a Methodological Way
2. Critique of Teleological-Critical Method
   Part II. Phenomenology as Pre-Theoretical Primordial Science
3. Analysis of the Structure of Experience
4. The Problem of Presuppositions
5. Primordial Science as Pre-Theoretical Science
   II. Phenomenology and Transcendental Philosophy of Value
   Introduction
   Part I. Historical Presentation of the Problem
6. The Genesis of Philosophy of Value as the Cultural Philosophy of the Present
7. Windelband's Grounding of Modern Transcendental Philosophy of Value
8. The Further Development of Value-Philosophy by Rickert
   Part II. Critical Considerations
   Appendix I: On the Nature of the University and Academic Study
   Appendix II: The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview
   Short Glossary