WHAT IS A THING? by Martin Heidegger GATEWAY EDITIONS, ew.Gatun Eos ta Contests (ot 1SBN0-8082-0157~ A. Vamos Ways oF QtastiowNe AvoUt vi Tanne 1 Pllosophicl and siete questioning Ambiquoun tai stout te ng The dierece nd betwee te question eC thingness and sic sd cca method he ereryay ond Sint experiences of the sing Fiver and bene thivone ‘he things jt hie The hig a he Dever of properen ‘he easel conetrton 9 he eth, {he thine and the propocon 10, The historicity ofthe snon ofthe thing IL Tathepropetiton {axerton) ag 3B. Kor’s Maa or Asxse Anour ine Tye of Pure Reason Rests : 1. The reception of Kans wurk in is ifctme 2. The tle of Kents major work 5. The categories as mas of aseetion 5. The modern mathematical sclonce of nature6. The history ofthe question about 1 ‘he thing summna’y Rational metapses (Wolf, Baumgarten) 1. The Question About te Thin la Kent's Main Work Analysis Indlces “What does “rtiue” mean in Kant ‘The relation of the-erique” of pure reason tothe “sstem oft principles othe pure sndrstanding™ Tmerpetation ofthe second main section othe tanscendertatanalstic ‘The ghost prince of al analyte fudements Kant eel dcnition ofthe judgment (On the highest principle of ll synthetic Idgments Srstematie representation of al the ‘Syl prieiple of pare understanding Taanstarors’ Nove, Translating Heidegger always presents dicultes, We have attempted to be as accurate as possible, while hold ing the Invention of cumbersome terms to minimum Dasein has been retained wherever possible. This hey ‘word, translated Iiterallya¢ "Being there is Heidegger Unique term for man's own way of Being over again ‘ther entities inthe world. Ina few instances, however itscemed best to translate it as “existence” according © the accepted mode. In these cases the German word realned in parentheses. We take this opportunity to acknowledge the valuable sssstance of Waltraut J. Stein in ransating some knotty sentences, Marsha Lynn Balle, who helped with prook ‘ng and the indices, and Elizabeth Barton, who worked Indefatigably fa typing the manuscript. W. B. Barton Jr Vera Deutsch (Emeritus) Memphis State University