Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Heidegger and Being and Time

by Stephen Mulhall

Overview

Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. A difficult and powerful philosopher, his work requires careful reading. Being and Time was his first major book and remains his most influential work.
Heidegger and Being and Time introduces and assesses: Heidegger's life and the background of Being and Time; the ideas and text of Being and Time; Heidegger's importance to philosophy and to the intellectual life of this century.
Ideal for anyone coming to Heidegger for the first time, this guide will be vital for all students of Heidegger in philosophy and cultural theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134855087
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/11/2002
Series:	Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	688 KB

About the Author

Stephen Mulhall

Table of Contents

Introduction: Heidegger’s project (Being and Time, §§1–8); Chapter 1 The human world: scepticism, cognition and agency (Being and Time, §§9–24); Chapter 2 The human world: society, selfhood and self-interpretation (Being and Time, §§25–32); Chapter 3 Language, truth and reality (Being and Time, §§33–34, 43–44); Chapter 4 Conclusion to Division One: the uncanniness of everyday life (Being and Time, §§34–42); Chapter 5 Theology secularized: mortality, guilt and conscience (Being and Time, §§45–60); Chapter 6 Heidegger's (re)visionary moment: time as the human horizon (Being and Time, §§61–71); Chapter 7 Fate and destiny: human natality and a brief history of time (Being and Time, §§72–82); Chapter 8 Conclusion to Division Two: Philosophical endings – the horizon of Being and Time (Being and Time, §83);

What People are Saying About This

Jim Urpeth

'A patient account and robust defence of Heidegger's critique of the ontological presuppositions of Cartesianism and the traditional 'problems' of scepticism and solipsism...Mulhall's text is an impressive feat of exegesis. It will be seized upon by those facing the daunting prospect of reading Being and Time for the first time. (Jim Urpeth, Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology)