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Martin Heidegger's major work (1927), in which he raises the question of the meaning of being through an analysis of Dasein (being-there) and shows that being is temporal. The most influential philosophical book of the 20th century.
Being and Time is a masterpiece by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger and one of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century. The book was intended as a two-part treatise, but only the first part, consisting of an introduction and two main sections, has been published. Heidegger's fundamental intention is to revive an ontological question that had been neglected by Plato and Aristotle: the question of the meaning of being (Sinn des Seins).
Instead of abstract metaphysics, Heidegger starts from a concrete analysis of human existence, which he calls Dasein (there-being or being-there). Dasein is not a traditional "subject", but a being that is always already in the world (In-der-Welt-sein). Being-in-the-world is a unique structure that includes practical dealing with things (Zuhandenheit – at hand), care (Sorge), being thrown (Geworfenheit) into the world, understanding, disposition, and speech.
In the first section, Heidegger describes the everyday, inauthentic way of being: "das Man" (They, public opinion) in which Dasein lives in mediocrity and decline (Verfallen). In the second section, he moves on to authentic existence: facing one's own finitude through being-towards-death (Sein-zum-Tode), the call of conscience, determination (Entschlossenheit), and the anticipation of death. Temporality (Zeitlichkeit) is shown as the meaning of concern and the horizon for understanding being.
Heidegger introduces revolutionary terminology and uses the hermeneutic-phenomenological method («unveiling» instead of traditional objective analysis). The work has had a profound influence on existentialism (Sartre), hermeneutics (Gadamer), deconstruction (Derrida), psychology, and theology, although Heidegger later deviated from some of his early positions after the «turn» (Kehre).
The book is known for its heaviness and dense, neologismic prose, but it remains indispensable for anyone who wants to understand contemporary philosophy, phenomenology, and questions of human existence, authenticity, time, and finitude.
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