Polt unpacks Heidegger's central ideas in a straightforward way without sacrificing any of their richness, novelty or complexity.
Preface
The Question
p. 1
Beginnings
p. 8
The roots
p. 8
Theory of theory
p. 10
Dilthey and Husserl
p. 12
Theory and life
p. 16
Heidegger the teacher
p. 19
Towards Being and Time
p. 21
Being and Time: Introduction and Division I
p. 23
The problem and the goal
p. 24
The mystery of Being
p. 25
Ourselves as the starting point
p. 28
Being and the sciences
p. 32
Being and human existence
p. 33
5, 6 and 8: The plan of Being and Time
p. 35
The method of Being and Time
p. 38
Existence and everydayness
p. 43
Being-in-the-world and knowing
p. 46
The world as a significant whole
p. 49
The impoverished Cartesian "world"
p. 55
Quantitative space and the space of appropriateness
p. 59
Being-with and the "they"
p. 60
The basic features of Being-in
p. 64
Attunement
p. 65
Understanding, interpretation and assertion
p. 68
Discourse
p. 74
Falling
p. 75
Anxiety and care
p. 76
Reality and truth
p. 80
Being and Time: Division II and Beyond
p. 85
Facing up to mortality
p. 85
Owning up to indebtedness and responsibility
p. 88
Existentiell truth as the basis of existential truth
p. 92
Temporality as the key to the Being of Dasein
p. 94
Reinterpreting everydayness in terms of temporality
p. 98
History, heritage and fate
p. 100
Primordial temporality and the ordinary concept of time
p. 106
A glimpse of Division III
p. 109
Later Heidegger
p. 113
Signs of the turn
p. 117
"What is Metaphysics?": nothingness and the disintegration of logic
p. 121
"On the Essence of Truth": unconcealment and freedom
p. 126
Introduction to Metaphysics: the history of the restriction of Being
p. 130
"The Origin of the Work of Art": the clash of earth and world
p. 134
Contributions to Philosophy: fragments of another beginning
p. 140
Heidegger's politics: facts and thoughts
p. 152
"Letter on Humanism": existentialism, humanism and ethics
p. 164
"The Question Concerning Technology": beings as manipulable resources
p. 171
Poetry and language
p. 174
The final analysis?
p. 178
Selected Bibliography
p. 181
Index
p. 193
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