 Heidegger clarifies the role played by hermeneutics in his early phenomenological inquiries into human existence through a critical reconsideration of Husserl’s classical phenomenology, or more specifically, a critical reconsideration of the aspects of Husserl’s phenomenology that rely on his transcendental and eidetic  methods.[4]  In this, Heidegger opposes his own ‘hermeneutical’ phenomenology against Husserl’s ‘transcendental’ approach.