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Heidegger's Being and Time
Paraphrased and Annotated, Volume 1
Heidegger's Being and Time
Paraphrased and Annotated, Volume 1
Description
This important new book condenses and rephrases, paragraph by paragraph, the entirety of Heidegger's magnum opus Being and Time.
Leading Heidegger scholar Thomas Sheehan renders the text in reader-friendly language that avoids the worst of the Heideggerese that persists in the wider scholarship. He helpfully outlines each of the six chapters and, in turn, each of the eighty-three individual sections of the book, providing a critical and insightful commentary that draws on Heidegger's comments on Being and Time throughout his career. The book also includes commentary and guidance on the terminology, scope, arguments, achievements, and limitations of Being and Time. This reader's guide is an essential resource for students, scholars and anyone engaging with Heidegger's complex work.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
I.
THE PARAPHRASE
Heidegger's Preface to the Seventh Edition (1953)
The Untitled Exergue (1927)
General Introduction
to the Whole of Being and Time
THE QUESTION OF HOW BEING IS UNDERSTOOD
Chapter 1: The necessity, structure, and priority of this question
§1 Necessity: the need to reopen this question
§2 Structure: formulating the question
§3 The ontological priority of ex-sistence
§4 The ontic priority of ex-sistence
Chapter 2: The two-fold task, the method, and the outline of Being and Time
§5 SZ I: Fundamental ontology
§6 SZ II: Dismantling the history of ontology
§7 Method: Phenomenology
§8 Outline of the book
SZ, PART ONE
FUNDAMENTAL ONTOLOGY
DIVISION ONE: THE PREPARATORY ANALYSIS OF EX-SISTENCE
Preface to SZ I.1
Chapter 1: The task of a preparatory analysis of ex-sistence
§9 Introduction to the analysis of ex-sistence
§10 Ex-sistential analysis vs. other approaches
§11 So-called “primitive ex-sistence” and the need for “a natural conception of meaning”
Chapter 2: Involved in meaning
§12 Our involvement in meaning: a preliminary sketch
§13 Subject-object thinking
Chapter 3: The meaning-giving world
§14 Introduction
Subdivision A:The practical world of meaning
§15 How we encounter useful things
§16 How a world of praxis shows up
§17 Signs: A special kind of useful thing
§18 The structure of a world of praxis
Subdivision B:Descartes' interpretation of “world”
Preface
§19 Descartes: The being of material things is extension in space
§20 Descartes: The “world” is comprised of extended substances
§21 Descartes' ontology of “world”: a hermeneutical discussion
Subdivision C: The spatiality of worlds of praxis and of ex-sistence
Preface
§22 The spatiality of useful things
§23 The spatiality of ex-sistence
§24 The spatiality of the world and of ex-sistence. The ontology of space
Chapter 4Who I am in everyday living
Preface
§25 The question of who I usually am
§26 Sociality: my own and that of other people
§27 My crowd-self
Chapter 5: Involvement as such
§28 Involvement itself (In-Sein): An overview
Subdivision A: The field of intelligibility: its ex-sistential structure
§29 Affect holds open intelligibility
§30 Fear is a mode of affect
§31 Aheadness holds open intelligibility
§32 Working out the projectedmeaning
§33 Declarative sentences
§34 Ex-sistence as logos
Subdivision B: The field of intelligibility: its absorbed modes
Preface
§35 Casual talk
§36 Curiosity
§37 Ambiguity
§38 Absorption and movement
Chapter 6: Ex-sistence as engaged
§39 Introduction to ex-sistence as a unified whole
§40 Experiencing ex-sistence through dread
§41 Engaged in making sense
§42 A fable about cura
§43 Realness
§44 Ex-sistence and “truth”
II.
THE ANNOTATIONS
Heidegger's Preface to the Seventh Edition (1953)
The Untitled Exergue (1927)
General introduction to the whole of Being And Time: The question of how being it understood
Chapter 1: The necessity, structure, and priority of this quesrtion
§1 Necessity: the need to reopen this question
§2 Structure: formulating the question
§3 The ontological priority of ex-sistence
§4 The ontic priority of ex-sistence
Chapter 2: The two-fold task, the method, and the outline of Being and Time
§5 SZ I: Fundamental ontology
§6 SZ II: Dismantling the history of ontology
§7 Method: henomenology
§8 Outline of the book
SZ, PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL ONTOLOGY
Division One: The Preparatory Analysis of Ex-Sistence
Preface to SZ I
Chapter 1: The task of a preparatory analysis of ex-sistence
§9 Introduction to the analysis of ex-sistence
§10 Ex-sistential analysis vs. other approaches
§11 So-called “primitive ex-sistence” and the need for “a natural conception of meaning”
Chapter 2: Ex-sistence is involved in meaning
§12 Our involvement in meaning: a preliminary sketch
§13 Subject-object thinking
Chapter 3: The meaning-giving world
§14 Introduction
Subdivision A: Practical worlds of meanings
§15 Useful things
§16 How a world of praxis shows up
§17 Signs: A special kind of useful thing
§18 The structure of a world of praxis
Subdivision B: Descartes' interpretation of “world”
Preface
§19 Descartes: The being of material things is extension in space
§20 Descartes: The “world” is comprised of extended substances
§21 Descartes' ontology of “world”: A hermeneutical discussion
Subdivision C: The spatiality of worlds of praxis and of ex-sistence
Preface
§22 The spatiality of useful things
§23 The spatiality of ex-sistence itself
§24 The spatiality of the world and of ex-sistence. The ontology of space
Chapter 4Who I am in everyday living
Preface
§25 The question of who I usually am
§26 Sociality: my own and that of other people
§27 My crowd-self
Chapter 5: Involvement as such
§28 Involvement itself (In-Sein): An overview
Subdivision A: The field of intelligibility: its ex-sistential structure
§29 Affect holds open intelligibility
§30 Fear is a mode of affect
§31 Aheadness holds open intelligibility
§32 Working out the projected meaning
§33 Declarative sentences
§34 Ex-sistence as logos
Subdivision B: The field of intelligibility: its absorbed modes
Preface
§35 Casual talk
§36 Curiosity
§37 Ambiguity
§38 Absorption and movement
Chapter 6: Ex-sistence as engaged
§39 Introduction to ex-sistence as a unified whole
§40 Experiencing ex-sistence through dread
§41 Engaged in making sense
§42 A fable about cura
§43 Realness
§44 Ex-sistence and “truth”
APPENDICES
Bibliographies
1. Heidegger's German Texts and Their English Translations 307
1.1 Texts within the Gesamtausgabe
1.2 Texts outside the Gesamtausgabe
2. Other Texts Cited
Terminology
German to English
English to German
Index
Product details
Published | 06 May 2025 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 456 |
ISBN | 9781786613424 |
Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Illustrations | 70 BW Illustrations, 7 BW Photos, 2 Tables, 51 Textboxes |
Series | New Heidegger Research |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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