Heidegger's 'Being and Time'

William Blattner is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, USA. He specialises in modern German philosophy, including Heidegger, phenomenology, and Kant, and is former Director of the International Society for Phenomenological Studies.

• Acknowledgements1. Context2. Overview of Themes3. Reading Division I3.1 Ontology3.2 Phenomenology3.3 Existence3.4 Being-in-the-World3.5 The World3.6 Significance & Worldhood3.7 The Self & the Anyone3.8 Disclosedness & the There3.9 Disposedness3.10 Understanding & Interpretation3.11 Language3.12 Realism and Idealism in Being and Time3.13 Truth4. Reading Division II4.1 Everyday, Owned, and Disowned Life4.2 Falling4.3 Anxiety4.4 Death, Guilt, & Conscience4.5 Resoluteness & Self-Ownership4.6 Existential Temporality4.7 History5. Reception and Influence Glossary Index

Whether one is an instructor looking to assign a companion volume to Being and Time on a syllabus, or a student approaching this text for the first time [...] Blattner's introduction will serve you well.