Table of Contents

Translators' Preface.

Author's Preface to the Seventh German Edition.

Introduction.

Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being.

1. The Necessity, Structure, and Priority of the Question of Being.

2. The Twofold Task of Working out the Question of Being.

Method and Design of our Investigation.

Part I:.

The Interpretation of Dasein in Terms of Temporality, and the Explication of Time as the Transcendental Horizon for the Question of Being.

3. Preparatory Fundamental Analysis of Dasein.

Exposition of the Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Dasein.

Being-in-the-World in General as the Basic State of Dasein.

The Worldhood of the World.

Being-in-the-World as Being-with and Being-One's-Self. The 'they'.

Being-in as Such.

Care as the Being of Dasein.

4. Dasein and Temporality.

Dasein's Possibility of Being-a-Whole, and Being-Towards-Death.

Dasein's Attestation of an Authentic Potentiality-for-Being, and Resoluteness.

Dasein's Authentic Potentiality-for-Being-a-Whole, and Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care.

Temporality and Everydayness.

Temporality and Historicality.

Temporality and Within-Time-Ness as the Source of the Ordinary Conception of Time.

Author's Notes.

Glossary of German Terms.

Index.

About the Author

Born in southern Germany, Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) taught philosophy at the University of Freiburg and the University of Marburg. His published works include: Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (1929); An Introduction to Metaphysics (1935); Discourse on Thinking (1959); On the Way to Language (1959); Poetry, Language, Thought (1971). His best-known work is Being and Time (1927).

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