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Being and Time
The question of the meaning of Being, posed through Dasein: care, anxiety, being-toward-death.
Introduction
Heidegger published the book in spring 1927 in Husserl’s Jahrbuch and at the same time as a separate volume, partly to secure his promotion to a full professorship in Marburg; it is dedicated to Husserl. Only the first two of six planned divisions appeared: an analysis of everyday existence – being-in-the-world, the “they”, care – and a division on death, conscience, resoluteness and temporality as the meaning of care. The announced third division and the second part, a “destruction” of the history of ontology from Kant back to Aristotle, were never written in this form. With its new vocabulary, the book became a starting point for existentialism, hermeneutics and deconstruction.
Connections
Builds on
- Metaphysicsc. 340 BCE · Aristotle
- Confessionsc. 400 · Augustine
- The Concept of Anxiety1844 · Søren Kierkegaard
- Introduction to the Human Sciences1883 · Wilhelm Dilthey
- Logical Investigations1900 · Edmund Husserl
Criticizes
- Meditations on First Philosophy1641 · René Descartes
Taken up in
- What Is Metaphysics?1929 · Martin Heidegger
- The Structure of Iki1930 · Kuki Shūzō
- Being and Nothingness1943 · Jean-Paul Sartre
- Truth and Method1960 · Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Dialectics of the Concrete1963 · Karel Kosík
- Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History1975 · Jan Patočka
- Time and Narrative1983 · Paul Ricœur
Criticized in
- Climate and Culture (Fūdo)1935 · Watsuji Tetsurō
- Totality and Infinity1961 · Emmanuel Levinas
- The Jargon of Authenticity1964 · Theodor W. Adorno
- Negative Dialectics1966 · Theodor W. Adorno
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