ABSTRACT
Among the many philosophical innovations that Martin Heidegger introduces in Being and Time, one of the most significant and rich in consequences is his claim that philosophy is hermeneutics. Indeed, one of the main achievements of Being and Time is its articulation of the basic features of the philosophical paradigm of hermeneutics, which had a decisive influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy. The argumentative strategy that Heidegger develops in Being and Time in order to achieve this goal is based on two central objections to the subject–object model. Heidegger’s way of situating his own philosophical project in the Introduction to Being and Time makes very clear that he shares the conception of philosophy common to the different versions of transcendental philosophy available at the time. Heidegger shows how his projective conception of interpretation applies to the specific case of cognition by analyzing the historical transformation of science from the ancient conception of nature into modern natural science.
