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This circularity is not something to be overcome, but something to be worked with. “Whatis decisive is not to get out of this circle but to get into it in the right way. . . . A positivepossibility of the most primordial knowledge is hidden in it.” (SZ 143) The possibilityopened up by the circularity of the inquiry is the opportunity to shape pre-judgment orVorhabe (fore-have), the anticipated totality of relevance from which perspectives andconcepts are drawn, and which determines what is unconcealed and what remains hidden.Hermeneutic phenomenology makes the implicit explicit in order to see how habitual prejudgmentsunveil and conceal being. Our “average everydayness” is interrogated in sucha way that the pre-judgments pre-reflectively operative in all our thinking and speakingare permitted to show themselves. As Pöggeler puts it, “Phenomenological philosophizingis traveling along with life.” 19We are now, with the publication of the early Freiburg lectures, beginning to understandthe methodological care with which the young Heidegger experimented with language inorder to overcome Husserl’s tendency to turn phenomenology into a theoretical science.The point was not to freeze life before the theoretical gaze, but to jump into life, midstreamas it were, to live phenomenologically. This is not something the phenomenologistcould do for anyone. Heidegger’s phenomenology is an invitation to apply a way of thinking,to think, on the assumption that every application will yield a different result. It is aphenomenology that is not only open to revision; it deconstructs itself in a struggle to staywith the stream of history. For it is in the haecceity of concrete historical existence thatbeing is disclosed in its most primordial sense, as time. None of this would have beenpossible without Husserl’s work, especially his Logische Untersuchungen. But it was clearto Heidegger from the beginning that the hermeneutics of faciticty represents a transpositionof phenomenology into an existential key, a transposition which significantlytransforms Husserl’s project.19Otto Pöggeler, Martin Heidegger’s Path of Thinking, trans. David Magurshak and Sigmund Barber(Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1987), 53.273