Éste es un libro en el que, a sabiendas, se transgreden los géneros propios de las convenciones literarias. En su mayor parte manuscrito destinado a reflejar el último curso dictado por Heidegger en la Universidad de Friburgo de Brisgovia, esta obra presupone el oído atento a los asistentes y juega con aliteraciones, redundancias y aun cacofonías que reverberan y cabrillean de modo extraño al ser leídas en un escrito. Í Prefacio.- Curso de trece lecciones.- La proposición del fundamento.
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher whose work is perhaps most readily associated with phenomenology and existentialism, although his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification. His ideas have exerted a seminal influence on the development of contemporary European philosophy. They have also had an impact far beyond philosophy, for example in architectural theory (see e.g., Sharr 2007), literary criticism (see e.g., Ziarek 1989), theology (see e.g., Caputo 1993), psychotherapy (see e.g., Binswanger 1943/1964, Guignon 1993) and cognitive science (see e.g., Dreyfus 1992, 2008; Wheeler 2005; Kiverstein and Wheeler forthcoming).