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Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time

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ISBN-10: 0791448002

ISBN-13: 9780791448007

Edition: 2001

Authors: Magda King, John Llewelyn

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A comprehensive commentary on both Divisions of Heidegger's Being and Time, for newcomers and specialists alike. Beginning with a non- technical exposition of Heidegger's question, "What does it mean to be?" the material gradually increases its closeness of focus on the text, explaining key notions of the original with the help of concrete illustrations and reference to certain works Heidegger composed both before and after Being and Time. King conducted seminars on Heidegger at the University of Edinburgh. Some material was published as Heidegger's Philosophy: A Guide to His Basic Thought in 1964 by Macmillan Company, New York, and by Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Annotation copyrighted by Book…    
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List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 1/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 413
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

John Llewelyn is former Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of several books, including Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas (IUP, 2002) and Seeing Through God (IUP, 2004).

Editor's Foreword
Author's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Bibliography and Key to Abbreviations
What Is the Question?
Introductory
Exposition
A Formal Statement of the Question
A Provisional Explanation of "Meaning" (Sinn): The Theme of Being and Time Restated
Why Has Traditional Ontology Failed to Get to the Root of the Problem of Being?
The Uniqueness of the Concept of Being: The Problem of Its Unity. Aristotle's "Unity of Analogy"--A Lead into Heidegger's Question
How Is the New Inquiry into Being to Be Concretely Worked Out? Difficulties Arising from the Nature of the Problem Itself
Basic Features and Problems of Being and Time
Introductory
The Being of Da-sein
Existence, Everydayness and Da-sein
Existence and Care, in Contrast with Reality
The Two Basic Ways of Existing: Owned or Authentic and Disowned or Inauthentic Existence. The Undifferentiated Modality of Everydayness
The Ontological-Existential Terminology of Being and Time
A Discussion of the Meaning of Da-sein
The Worldishness of World
The Fundamental Existential Constitution of Da-sein: Being-in-the-World. Heidegger's Conception of World
The Theoretical and Practical Ways of Taking Care of Things
The Ontic Basis of the Ontological Inquiry into World: The Umwelt of Everyday Existence. The Meaning of Umwelt
The Reality of Beings within the World
Being-with-Others and Being-One's-Self
The Basic Concept of Being-with
The Everyday Self and the "They"
The Publicity of Everydayness
Discourse and Language: Everyday Discourse as Idle Talk
The Everyday Way of Seeing: Curiosity
Ambiguity
Falling and Thrownness
The Basic Mood of Dread (Angst) and the Being of Da-sein as Care
The Disclosure of Being through Dread
The Structure of Da-sein's Being as Care
Truth, Being, and Existence: Heidegger's Existential Interpretation of Truth
The Concept of Phenomenology
A Preview of the Tasks and Problems of Division Two
Division Two of Being and Time: Da-sein and Temporality
Introductory
The Articulation, Language, and Method of Division Two
The Articulation of Division Two
The Language of Division Two
Timeishness
The Tenses of "To Be"
Heidegger's Tautologies
Primordial Time (Ursprungliche Zeit)
The "Originality" of an Ontological Interpretation
The Method of Division Two
Da-sein's Possibility of Being-a-Whole and Being-toward-Death
Can Da-sein be Experienced as a Whole?
Experiencing the Death of Others
Incompletness, End, and Wholeness
The Existential Analysis of Death in Contrast with all Other Kinds of Interpretation
A Preliminary Sketch of the Existential Structure of Death
Being-Toward-Death and Everydayness
Everyday Being Toward an End and the Full Existential Concept of Death
The Existential Structure of an Owned, Authentic Way of Being-Toward-Death
Witness to an Owned Existence and Authentic Resolution
Conscience as the Call of Care
Understanding the Call and Owing
Interpolation: Ground-Being and Nothing
Owing, Guilt, and Morality: The Authentic Hearing of the Call of Conscience and the Existential Structure of Owned or Authentic Existence
Authentic Ability-to-Be-a-Whole and Temporality as the Meaning of Care
Anticipatory Forward-Running Resoluteness as the Authentic Way of Being-a-Whole
Justification of the Methodical Basis of the Existential Analysis
Care and Selfhood
Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care
A Primordial Repetition of the Existential Analysis Arising from the Temporality of Here-Being [Da-sein]
Temporality and Everydayness
The Temporality of Disclosedness in General
The Temporality of Understanding
The Temporality of Attunement
The Temporality of Falling
The Temporality of Discourse
The Temporality of Being-in-the-World and the Problem of the Transcendence of the World
The Temporality of Circumspect Taking Care
The Temporal Meaning of the Way in Which Circumspect Taking Care Becomes Modified into the Theoretical Discovery of Things Objectively Present in the World
The Temporal Problem of the Transcendence of the World
The Temporality of the Roominess Characteristic of Here-Being
The Temporal Meaning of the Everydayness of Here-Being
Temporality and Historicity
The Vulgar Understanding of History and the Occurrence of Here-Being
The Essential Constitution of Historicity
The Historicity of Here-Being and World History
Temporality and Within-Timeness as the Origin of the Vulgar Concept of Time
The Incompleteness of the Foregoing Analysis of the Temporality of Here-Being
The Temporality of Here-Being and the Taking Care of Time
Time Taken Care of and Within-Timeness
Within-Timeness and the Genesis of the Vulgar Concept of Time
The Contrast of the Existential and Ontological Connection of Temporality, Here-Being, and World-Time with Hegel's Interpretation of the Relation between Time and Spirit
Hegel's Concept of Time
Hegel's Interpretation of the Connection between Time and Spirit
Conclusion: An Attempt to Outline Heidegger's Answer to the Question Asked at the Beginning of Being and Time
Notes
Glossary of German Expressions
Index