The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time

446 Pages·2013·1.48 MB·english

by  Mark A. Wrathall

The Cambridge Companion to
HEIDEGGER’S B EING AND TIME
The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger’s Being and Time contains
seventeen chapters by leading scholars of Heidegger. It is a useful
reference work for beginning students, but it also explores the cen-
tral themes of B eing and Time with a depth that will be of interest
to scholars. The Companion begins with a section-by-section over-
view of Being and Time and a chapter reviewing the genesis of this
seminal work. The i nal chapter situates B eing and Time in the
context of Heidegger’s later work. The remaining chapters exam-
ine the core issues of B eing and Time , including the question of
being, the phenomenology of space, the nature of human being (our
relation to others, the importance of moods, the nature of human
understanding, language), Heidegger’s views on idealism and real-
ism and his position on skepticism and truth, Heidegger’s account
of authenticity (with a focus on his views on freedom, being toward
death, and resoluteness), and the nature of temporality and human
historicality.
Dr. Mark A. Wrathall is professor of philosophy at the University
of California, Riverside. He is the author of H eidegger and
Unconcealment (Cambridge University Press, 2 010 ) and H ow
to Read Heidegger (2006). He has edited a number of collec-
tions, including A Companion to Heidegger (2007), A Companion
to Phenomenology and Existentialism (2009), R eligion after
Metaphysics (2004), and A ppropriating Heidegger (2008).
Dr. Wrathall has contributed chapters to T he Cambridge
Companion to Heidegger (2006) and The Cambridge Companion
to Merleau-Ponty (2004), as well as numerous articles to
peer-reviewed journals in philosophy. He has lectured at univer-
sities in Germany, China, Japan, Taiwan, the United Kingdom,
Sweden, and Finland.

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The Cambridge Companion to
HEIDEGGER’S
BEING AND
TIME
Edited by
Mark A. W rathall
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Contents
List of Contributors page xi
Acknowledgments xv
Works by Heidegger xvii
1 A n Overview of B eing and Time 1
Mark A. Wrathall and Max Murphey
2 M artin Heidegger’s B eing and Time : A Carefully
Planned Accident? 5 4
Alfred Denker
3 T he Question of Being 84
Taylor Carman
4 T he Semantics of “Dasein” and the Modality
of Being and Time 100
Wayne Martin
5 H eidegger on Space and Spatiality 129
David R. Cerbone
6 B eing-with-Others 145
Hubert L. Dreyfus
7 W hy Mood Matters 157
Matthew Ratcliffe
8 H eidegger on Human Understanding 177
Mark A. Wrathall
9 H eidegger’s Pragmatic-Existential Theory of Language
and Assertion 201
Barbara Fultner
10 T he Empire of Signs: Heidegger’s Critique of Idealism
in Being and Time 223
Peter E. Gordon
ix
x Contents
11 Heidegger on Skepticism, Truth, and Falsehood 239
Denis McManus
12 Death and Demise in B eing and Time 260
Iain Thomson
13 Freedom and the “Choice to Choose Oneself”
in B eing and Time 291
B é atrice Han-Pile
14 A uthenticity and Resoluteness 320
William Blattner
15 T emporality as the Ontological Sense of Care 338
Stephan K äu fer
16 H istorical Finitude 360
Joseph K. Schear
17 What If Heidegger Were a Phenomenologist? 381
Thomas Sheehan
Bibliography 403
Index 415