Why is Phenomenology a Hermeneutics? | Heidegger - Being and Time

Welcome to 'Back to the Texts Themselves,' a series on phenomenology. Today I examine Part 2, sections 7 - 8 of the intro to Martin Heidegger's Being & Time.

In this video, I address the following questions:
1) How is phenomenology related to ontology?
2) Why is phenomenological ontology a hermeneutic enterprise?
3) How should we approach Being & Time in light of Heidegger’s association with Nazism?

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[stephenanastasi]

I totally love the way you go about these talks. They are sooo helping me to understand philosophy and to see what I need to do to complete my own work on the origin. Thank you so much.

[satanscrow]

Four stars. You pack a lot of meat in these short videos. Currently reading Being and Time and find second, third, fourth, or fifth opinions illuminating. Really think this big book needs more than one read...

[garyratcliff]

Brilliant. Thank you you couldn’t tell me what the works are that the other parts of the proposed book are covered in? If you do that later no problem. Currently reading B & T and these short videos are are great help for my clarity. Thank you.

[satanscrow]

As for his Nazism, he surrendered to the They of his time and remained inauthentic, for the rest of his life, in commitment to the They_ which for him meant, Germany (guess he really loved the Black Forest). Who knows?
But I agree, he is a super mind.
My own opinion? Heidegger's is God's revenge on the hubris of Western, so called rational man. Some think God doesn't have jokes; yes She does.

[artlessons]

Heidegger did in fact choice to join the natzis.
As existential goes he has to take responsibility for that choice . He thought Germany had a special thing going for them and he wanted to be a part of it . He was well aware of the horror though by being a existentialist / phenomenology he never saw outside the box .
He was consciously of what was going on. Guilty as charged .
Hegel and Nietzsche work was used for horrendous events in history though did not make a personal conscious choice to do so .

[aqsakhan]

Quite difficult for me to understand 😭