Editing Being and Time (section)

===Phenomenology===
{{See also|Phenomenology (philosophy)|l1=Phenomenology}}
Heidegger's mentor [[Edmund Husserl]] developed a method of analysis called "[[phenomenological reduction]]" or "bracketing," that emphasized primordial experience as its key element. Husserl used this method to define the structures of consciousness and show how they are directed at both real and ideal objects within the world.<ref>On the ''Logical Investigations'', see
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''Being and Time'' employs this method but purportedly modifies Husserl's subjectivist tendencies. Whereas Husserl conceived humans as constituted by consciousness, Heidegger countered that consciousness is peripheral to [[Dasein]], which cannot be reduced to consciousness. Consciousness is thus an "effect" rather than a determinant of existence. By shifting the priority from consciousness (psychology) to existence (ontology), Heidegger altered the subsequent direction of phenomenology.

But ''Being and Time'' misrepresented its phenomenology as a departure from methods established earlier by Husserl, according to [[Daniel O. Dahlstrom]].<ref>Daniel O. Dahlstrom, "Heidegger's Critique of Husserl", in Theodore Kisiel & John van Buren (eds.), ''Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought'' (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994), p. 244.</ref> In this vein, Robert J. Dostal asserts that "if we do not see how much it is the case that Husserlian phenomenology provides the framework for Heidegger's approach," then it's impossible to exactly understand ''Being and Time''.<ref>Robert J. Dostal, "Time and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger", in Charles Guignon (ed.), ''The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger'' (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 142.</ref>

On publication in 1927, ''Being and Time'' bore a dedication to Husserl, who beginning a decade earlier, championed Heidegger's work, and helped him secure the retiring Husserl's chair in Philosophy at the [[University of Freiburg]] in 1928.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=f3l7S-ZTK4YC&pg=PA120 Seyla Benhabib, ''The Reluctant Modernism Of Hannah Arendt''] (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003, p. 120.)</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.essayempire.com/examples/criminal-justice/martin-heidegger-essay/|title=Martin Heidegger Essay ⋆ Criminal Justice Essay Examples ⋆ EssayEmpire|date=2017-05-29|work=EssayEmpire|access-date=2018-01-23|language=en-US}}</ref> Because Husserl was Jewish, in 1941 Heidegger, then a member of the [[Nazi Party]], agreed to remove the dedication from ''Being and Time'' (restored in 1953 edition).<ref>[[Rüdiger Safranski]], ''[[Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil]]'' (Cambridge, Mass., & London: Harvard University Press, 1998), pp. 253–258.</ref>{{rp|253–258}}