The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time

In The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's 'Being and Time', seventeen leading scholars explore the central themes of Heidegger's revolutionary work.

Mark A. Wrathall (Edited by)

9780521720564, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 31 July 2013

448 pages
22.6 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.64 kg

'… this book is a quality contribution to commentaries on Martin Heidegger's Being and Time … The essays are uniformly careful and clear, providing a rich explanation of the complexities of Heidegger's work and the varying interpretation of it … Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty.' Choice

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.

1. An overview of Being and Time Mark A. Wrathall and Max Murphey
2. Martin Heidegger's Being and Time: a carefully planned accident? Alfred Denker
3. The question of being Taylor Carman
4. The semantics of dasein and the modality of Being and Time Wayne Martin
5. Heidegger on space and spatiality David R. Cerbone
6. Being-with-others Hubert L. Dreyfus
7. Why mood matters Matthew Ratcliffe
8. Heidegger on human understanding Mark A. Wrathall
9. Heidegger's pragmatic-existential theory of language and assertion Barbara Fultner
10. The empire of signs: Heidegger's critique of idealism in Being and Time Peter E. Gordon
11. Heidegger on scepticism, truth and falsehood Denis McManus
12. Death and demise in Being and Time Iain Thomson
13. Freedom and the choice to choose oneself in Being and Time Béatrice Han-Pile
14. Authenticity and resoluteness William Blattner
15. Temporality as the ontological sense of care Stephan Käufer
16. Historical finitude Joseph K. Schear
17. What if Heidegger were a phenomenologist? Thomas Sheehan.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF], History of Western philosophy [HPC]