Meaning and factic life On Heidegger's first theory of meaning in light of his early Freiburg lecture Phänomenologie der Anschauung und des Ausdrucks. Theorie der philosophischen Begriffsbildung (GA 59): la teoría del significado del primer Heidegger a la luz del curso Fenomenología de la Intuición y de la Expresión (GA 59)

Abstract

This article deals with one of Heidegger's first lectures (from his first Freiburg period): Phänomenologie der Anschauung und des Ausdrucks. Theorie der philosophischen Begriffsbildung, lectured in winter term 1919/20. Many essential points regarding what phenomenology is and, accordingly, what its proper method should be, were to be determined and fixed in that period of his thought. In the first part of our paper, we expose and discuss some key concepts of this phenomenology of intuition and expression such as the fading tendency of meaning (Verblassung der Bedeutung), and its counterpart: the phenomenological destruction in its close relation to the method of «formal indication», and whose final phase corresponds to what Heidegger calls the Phänomenologische Diiudication. In the second part of my paper I shall present a brilliant implementation of the phenomenological destruction: that of the concept of «history», sorting out its various meanings. We will then see Heidegger's phenomenological destruction at work and, therefore, its use of some basic hermeneutical categories (such as Gehaltsinn, Vollzugsinn, Bezugsinn) that conduct the process of formal indication.