The edition aims to provide a broader perspective on the prolific, multifaceted, and still largely unrecognized body of work produced by Reiner Schürmann (1941–1993). It brings together a selection of Schürmann’s as yet unpublished lecture notes, ­written for the courses he delivered at the New School for Social Research in New York between 1975 and 1993, with previously uncollected essays. The Selected Writings and Lecture Notes contribute to a renewed appreciation of the scope of Schürmann’s philosophical endeavor and help to establish him as an indispensable thinker for the understanding of our present—or, rather, to show our present as the moment of legibility for Schürmann’s work.