The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

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 Central Themes Of Being And Time With A Depth That Will Be Of Interest To Scholars. The Companion Begins With A Section-by-section Overview And A Chapter Reviewing The Genesis Of This Seminal Work. The Final Chapter Situates Being And Time In The Context Of Heidegger's Later Work. An Overview Of Being And Time / Mark A. Wrathall And Max Murphey -- Martin Heidegger's Being And Time : A Carefully Planned Accident? / Alfred Denker -- The Question Of Being / Talor Carman -- The Demantics Of Dasein And The Modality Of Being And Time Wayne Martin -- Heidegger On Space And Spatiality / David R. Cerbone -- Being-with-others / Hubert L. Dreyfus -- Why Mood Matters / Matthew Ratcliffe -- Heidegger On Human Understanding / Mark A. Wrathall -- Heidegger's Pragmatic-existential Theory Of Language And Assertion / Barbara Fultner -- The Empire Of Signs : Heidegger's Critique Of Idealism In Being And Time / Peter E. Gordon -- Heidegger On Scepticism, Truth, And Falsehood / Denis Mcmanus -- Death And Demise In Being In Time / Iain Thomson -- Freedom And The 'choice To Choose Oneself' In Being And Time / Beatrice Han-pile -- Authenticity And Resoluteness / William Blattner -- Temporality As Th Eontological Sense Of Care / Stephan Kaufer -- Historical Finitude / Joseph K. Schear -- What If Heideffer Were A Phenomenologist? / Thomas Sheehan. Edited By Mark A. Wrathall. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 403-413) And Index. 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 also explores the central themes of Being and Time with a depth that will be of interest to scholars. The Companion begins with a section-by-section overview of Being and Time and a chapter reviewing the genesis of this seminal work. The final chapter situates Being and Time in the context of Heidegger's later work. The remaining chapters examine the core issues of Being 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 realism 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. All Bookmarks Contents Acknowledgments Works by Heidegger 1 An Overview of Being and Time 2 Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time A Carefully Planned Accident? 3 The Question of Being 4 The Semantics of “Dasein” and the Modality of Being and Time 5 Heidegger on Space and Spatiality 6 Being-with-Others 7 Why Mood Matters 8 Heidegger on Human Understanding 9 Heidegger’s Pragmatic- Existential Theory of Language and Assertion 10 The Empire of Signs 11 Heidegger on Skepticism, Truth, and Falsehood 12 Death and Demise in Being and Time 13 Freedom and the “Choice to Choose Oneself” in Being and Time 14 Authenticity and Resoluteness 15 Temporality as the Ontological Sense of Care 16 Historical Finitude 17 What If Heidegger Were a Phenomenologist? Bibliography Index Martin Heidegger's Being and Time is one of the most influential and revolutionary books in the history of philosophy. This Companion will help beginners grasp what Being and Time achieves and will illustrate what is at stake in Heidegger's existential and phenomenological take on the central issues in the Western tradition of philosophy.