Being and Time

Martin Heidegger

SUNY Press, Jul 1, 2010 - Philosophy - 482 pages

The publication in 1927 of Martin Heidegger’s magnum opus, Being and Time, signaled an intellectual event of the first order and had an impact in fields far beyond that of philosophy proper. Being and Time has long been recognized as a landmark work of the twentieth century for its original analyses of the character of philosophic inquiry and the relation of the possibility of such inquiry to the human situation. Still provocative and much disputed, Heidegger’s text has been taken as the inspiration for a variety of innovative movements in fields ranging from psychoanalysis, literary theory, existentialism, ethics, hermeneutics, and theology. A work that disturbs the traditions of philosophizing that it inherits, Being and Time raises questions about the end of philosophy and the possibilities for thinking liberated from the presumptions of metaphysics.

The Stambaugh translation captures the vitality of the language and thinking animating Heidegger’s original text. It is also the most comprehensive edition insofar as it includes the marginal notes made by Heidegger in his own copy of Being and Time, and takes account of the many changes that he made in the final German edition of 1976. The revisions to the original translation correct some ambiguities and problems that have become apparent since the translation appeared fifteen years ago. Bracketed German words have also been liberally inserted both to clarify and highlight words and connections that are difficult to translate, and to link this translation more closely to the German text.

Contents

• The Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being: 1
• The Method of the Investigation and Its Outline: 15
• PART ONE The Interpretation of Dasein in Terms ofTemporality Zeitlichkeit and the Explicationof Time as the Transcendental Horizon of the Quest...: 39
• 1 The Exposition of the Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Dasein: 41
• 2 BeingintheWorld in General as the Fundamental Constitution of Dasein: 53
• 3 The Worldliness of the World: 63
• The They: 111
• 5 Beingin as Such: 127
• 6 Care as the Being of Dasein: 175
• DIVISION TWO Dasein and Temporality: 221
• 1 The Possible BeingaWhole of Daseinand BeingtowardDeath: 227
• 2 The Attestation of Dasein of an Authentic PotentialityofBeing and Resoluteness: 257
• 3 The Authentic PotentialityforBeingaWholeof Dasein and Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care: 289
• 4 Temporality and Everydayness: 319
• 5 Temporality and Historicity: 355
• 6 Temporality and WithinTimeness as the Origin of the Vulgar Concept of Time: 385
• LEXICON: 417

About the author

Martin Heidegger was born in Messkirch, Baden, Germany on September 22, 1889. He studied Roman Catholic theology and philosophy at the University of Frieburg before joining the faculty at Frieburg as a teacher in 1915. Eight years later Heidegger took a teaching position at Marburg. He taught there until 1928 and then went back to Frieburg as a professor of philosophy. As a philosopher, Heidegger developed existential phenomenology. He is still widely regarded as one of the most original philosophers of the 20th century. Influenced by other philosophers of his time, Heidegger wrote the book, Being in Time, in 1927. In this work, which is considered one of the most important philosophical works of our time, Heidegger asks and answers the question "What is it, to be?" Other books written by Heidegger include Basic Writings, a collection of Heidegger's most popular writings; Nietzsche, an inquiry into the central issues of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy; On the Way to Language, Heidegger's central ideas on the origin, nature and significance of language; and What is Called Thinking, a systematic presentation of Heidegger's later philosophy. Since the 1960s, Heidegger's influence has spread beyond continental Europe and into a number of English-speaking countries. Heidegger died in Messkirch on May 26, 1976.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Being and Time; SUNY Series in Contemporary Co; SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
• Author: Martin Heidegger
• Editor: Dennis J. Schmidt
• Translated by: Joan Stambaugh
• Contributor: Dennis J. Schmidt
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: SUNY Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1438432763, 9781438432762
• Length: 482 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Metaphysics; Philosophy / Movements / Existentialism; Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology