[1.] A Privatdozent is an unsalaried private lecturer who holds a doctorate and habilitation.
[2.] The Latin, from Terence, means: “I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.”
[3.] In the following excerpt, the numerals within the brackets indicate the version being referenced.
[4.] The German word for boredom, Langeweile, literally means the “long while”; kurzweilig machen, to make for entertainment or diversion, literally means to make “short [in] while.” For an extended analysis of boredom and its temporal character, see Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe volume 29/30, Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik: Welt—Endlichkeit—Einsamkeit. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1983. Translated as The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude by William McNeill and Nicholas Walker. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
[5.] Translation adapted from Michael Hamburger, Friedrich Hölderlin: Poems and Fragments, 653. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
[6.] Adapted from Phenomenology of Spirit, translated by A. V. Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977, 19.
[7.] Adapted from Phenomenology of Spirit, translated by A. V. Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977, 41.
[8.] Heidegger here differentiates Mit-leiden, “suffering-with,” from Mitleid, mere “pity,” and distinguishes Leid, “pain” in the sense of affliction or sorrow, from the Leiden or “suffering” that lies at the root of Leidenschaft, “passion.” The German here reads, “Das Seyn der Halbgötter ist ein Leiden des Seyns, und Leiden kann nur wieder im Leiden erfahren werden, in einem Mit-leiden, das freilich von einem bloßen Mitleid als schwächlichem Nachgeben und Bedauern ebensoweit entfernt ist wie das bloße Leid von jenem Leiden, dem die Leidenschaft entspringt.”
[9.] Here we read Beistand in place of Bestand.
[10.] The German Notwendigkeit, “necessity,” literally means the turning of “need,” Not.
[11.] The reference is to paragraph 163 of the Phenomenology of Spirit.
[12.] The term Gründerjahre, “founders’ years,” refers to the period of rapid industrial expansion in Germany from 1871–1873, following the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.