Thomas Sheehan and Richard E. Palmer The materials translated in the
body of this volume date from 1927 through 1931. The Encyclopaedia
Britannica Article and the Amsterdam Lectures were written by Edmund
Hussed (with a short contribution by Martin Heideg- ger) between
September 1927 and April 1928, and Hussed's marginal notes to Sein und
Zeit and Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik were made between 1927 and
1929. The appendices to this volume contain texts from both Hussed and
Heidegger, and date from 1929 through 1931. As a whole these materials
not only document Hussed's thinking as he approached retirement and
emeri- tus status (March 31, 1928) but also shed light on the
philosophical chasm that was widening at that time between Hussed and
his then colleague and protege, Martin Heidegger. 1. The Encyclopaedia
Britannica Article Between September and early December 1927, Hussed,
under contract, composed an introduction to phenomenology that was to be
published in the fourteenth edition ofthe Encyclopaedia Britannica
(1929). Hussed's text went through four versions (which we call Drafts
A, B, C, and D) and two editorial condensations by other hands (which we
call Drafts E and F). Throughout this volume those five texts as a whole
are referred to as "the EB Article" or simply "the Article. " Hussed's
own final version of the Article, Draft D, was never published of it
appeared only in 1962.