Heidegger's "Being and Time" (Edinburgh Philosophical Guide)

161 Pages·2008·0.62 MB·English

by  William Large

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Heidegger’s Being and Time
Edinburgh Philosophical Guides Series
Titles in the series include:
Kant’sCritique of Pure Reason
Douglas Burnham with Harvey Young
Derrida’sOf Grammatology
Arthur Bradley
Heidegger’sBeing and Time
William Large
Descartes’Meditations on First Philosophy
Kurt Brandhorst
Husserl’sThe Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
Katrin Joost
Plato’sRepublic
Darren Sheppard
Spinoza’sEthics
Beth Lord
Heidegger’s Being and Time
An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide
William Large
Edinburgh University Press
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Contents
Series Editor’s Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
1. Historical Context 3
From Phenomenology to Ontology 3
2. A Guide to the Text 19
The Question of Being 19
Being-in-the-World 34
Others, Language and Truth 51
Anxiety, Death and Guilt 66
Time and History 83
3. Study Aids 105
Glossary 105
Further Reading 127
Writing an Essay on Heidegger’s Being and Time 139
Index 147

Series Editor’s Preface
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Douglas Burnham

Acknowledgements
The writing of this book was supported by a research grant from the
University College Plymouth, St Mark and St John, for which I am
very grateful. I would also like to thank the series editor Douglas
Burnham and Carol Macdonald the commissioning editor from
Edinburgh University Press for their patience and helpful advice.
Finally I would like to thank my friends and colleagues who read
different versions of this manuscript: Arthur Bradley, Paul Bentley,
Rob Brown, Lars Iyer, Meredith Millar, Val Reardon, Paul Sutton
and David Webb.