The problem of death in Contributions to Philosophy (1936-1939)

In this article I aim to provide some indicators for an integral analysis of the evolution of the problem of death in Heidegger's thought developed subsequent to Sein und Zeit. The question that guides the inquiry is whether and how the phenomenology of death - which played such a decisive role in the context of the analytic of Dasein, being situated at the heart of fundamental ontology - still remains the centre of Heidegger's philosophical concern. We focus here on the Beiträge zur Philosophie (1936-39), in which we find a real deepening of the phenomenon of death, even if this reflection is no longer developed within the framework of an existential analytic, but within the framework of thought about being as such. © 2010 Revue Philosophique de Louvain.