Heidegger’s Being and Time: An Introduction

✍ Scribed by Paul Gorner

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In Being and Time Heidegger gives an account of the distinctive features of human existence, in an attempt to answer the question of the meaning of being. He finds that underlying all of these features is what he calls 'original time'. In this clear and straightforward introduction to the text, Paul Gorner takes the reader through the work, examining its detail and explaining the sometimes difficult language which Heidegger uses. The topics which he covers include being-in-the-world, being-with, thrownness and projection, truth, authenticity, time and being, and historicity. His book makes Being and Time accessible to students in a way that conveys the essence of Heidegger's project and remains true to what is distinctive about his thinking.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 8
A note on the translations......Page 10
Biographical note......Page 11
Being and time: an overview......Page 13
2
The question of being......Page 23
Phenomenology......Page 37
3
Being-in-the-world......Page 44
The meaning of ‘being-in-the-world’......Page 45
Concern and equipment......Page 47
Mere perception......Page 49
The being of equipment......Page 51
What heidegger means by ‘world’......Page 53
Space and spatiality......Page 57
Heidegger and the ‘problem’ of the ‘external’ world......Page 60
4
Being-with......Page 66
Disclosedness......Page 80
Affectedness......Page 82
Understanding......Page 87
Interpretation (auslegung)......Page 92
Assertion or statement (aussage) as a derivative mode of interpretation......Page 94
Discourse (rede)......Page 97
Care (sorge)......Page 101
Conclusions......Page 102
6
Truth......Page 104
The ‘dependence’ of truth on dasein......Page 112
7
Authenticity......Page 115
The one (or they)......Page 116
Falling......Page 120
Dasein is in the untruth......Page 122
Angst......Page 124
Death......Page 129
Conscience and guilt......Page 144
Resoluteness......Page 152
Heidegger’s ‘existentialism’......Page 155
8
Time and being......Page 163
Ecstatic temporality......Page 165
Authentic and inauthentic temporality......Page 168
Time as encountered in concern......Page 170
Temporality and historicity......Page 173
Time as the meaning of being as such......Page 178
9
Beyond phenomenology......Page 181
Some works about heidegger......Page 190
Index......Page 192