This book sets the record straight about the greater influence of Dilthey than Husserl in Heidegger's initial formulation of his conception of phenomenology.

Robert C. Scharff is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire and Executive Director of ITERATA, a non-profit institute for the study of interdisciplinarity in science, industry, and higher education. He is author of How History Matters to Philosophy (2015), Comte After Positivism (2002), and numerous papers on 19th and 20th century positivism, postpositivism, and continental philosophy; co-editor (with Val Dusek) of The Philosophy of Technology (2003, 2014); and former editor of Continental Philosophy Review (1994-2005).

Preface / Acknowledgments / Note on citations / Introduction / 1. Preparing to "Be" Phenomenological / Part I / 2. From Dilthey to Heidegger: Recasting the Erklären-Verstehen Debate / 3. Heidegger's Destructive Retrieval of Dilthey's "Standpoint of Life" / Part II / 4. From Dilthey to Husserl / 5. Heidegger's Diltheyian Retrieval of Husserl's "Two Sides" / Part III / 6. Continuously "Becoming" Phenomenological / References / Index