Historical Dictionary of Heidegger's Philosophy (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series)

Life is meaningful and expresses itself in and through the individual’s experiences and self-understanding.

This transformation is the hermeneutic “breakthrough” in phenomenology. Philosophy becomes a distinct possibility of life itself.

In a discussion of Paul Natorp’s objections to phenomenology, Heidegger transforms Husserl’s principle of all principles—that is, the primacy of originary giving and so of intuition—into a nontheoretical and hermeneutic principle, that is, the primacy of understanding.

This environmental experience is the condition of possibility of the neo-Kantian experience of pure givenness, which is nonobjective and impersonal.

Frank Schalow