A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time

by King, Magda; Llewellyn, John

• ISBN13: 9780791448007
• ISBN10: 0791448002
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword	xiii
Author's Foreword	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxi
Bibliography and Key to Abbreviations	xxiii
PART ONE What Is the Question?
Introductory	1	(4)
Exposition	5	(1)
A Formal Statement of the Question	5	(1)
A Provisional Explanation of ``Meaning'' (Sinn): The Theme of Being and Time Restated	6	(5)
Why Has Traditional Ontology Failed to Get to the Root of the Problem of Being?	11	(4)
The Uniqueness of the Concept of Being: The Problem of Its Unity. Aristotle's ``Unity of Analogy''---A Lead into Heidegger's Question	15	(4)
How Is the New Inquiry into Being to Be Concretely Worked Out? Difficulties Arising from the Nature of the Problem Itself	19	(10)
PART TWO Basic Features and Problems of Being and Time
Introductory	25	(4)
The Being of Da-sein	29	(22)
Existence, Everydayness and Da-sein	29	(18)
Existence and Care, in Contrast with Reality	29	(11)
The Two Basic Ways of Existing: Owned or Authentic and Disowned or Inauthentic Existence. The Undifferentiated Modality of Everydayness	40	(2)
The Ontological-Existential Terminology of Being and Time	42	(5)
A Discussion of the Meaning of Da-sein	47	(4)
The Worldishness of World	51	(20)
The Fundamental Existential Constitution of Da-sein: Being-in-the-World. Heidegger's Conception of World	51	(14)
The Theoretical and Practical Ways of Taking Care of Things	65	(3)
The Ontic Basis of the Ontological Inquiry into World: The Umwelt of Everyday Existence. The Meaning of Umwelt	68	(3)
The Reality of Beings within the World	71	(4)
Being-with-Others and Being-One's-Self	75	(16)
The Basic Concept of Being-with	75	(5)
The Everyday Self and the ``They''	80	(3)
The Publicity of Everydayness	83	(5)
Discourse and Language: Everyday Discourse as Idle Talk	83	(3)
The Everyday Way of Seeing: Curiosity	86	(1)
Ambiguity	87	(1)
Falling and Thrownness	88	(3)
The Basic Mood of Dread (Angst) and the Being of Da-sein as Care	91	(10)
The Disclosure of Being through Dread	91	(6)
The Structure of Da-sein's Being as Care	97	(4)
Truth, Being, and Existence: Heidegger's Existential Interpretation of Truth	101	(8)
The Concept of Phenomenology	109	(10)
A Preview of the Tasks and Problems of Division Two	119	(12)
PART THREE Division Two of Being and Time: Da-sein and Temporality
Introductory	127	(4)
The Articulation, Language, and Method of Division Two	131	(14)
The Articulation of Division Two	131	(1)
The Language of Division Two	132	(10)
Timeishness	134	(1)
The Tenses of ``To Be''	135	(1)
Heidegger's Tautologies	136	(5)
Primordial Time (Ursprungliche Zeit)	141	(1)
The ``Originality'' of an Ontological Interpretation	142	(1)
The Method of Division Two	142	(3)
Da-sein's Possibility of Being-a-Whole and Being-toward-Death	145	(18)
Can Da-sein be Experienced as a Whole?	145	(1)
Experiencing the Death of Others	146	(1)
Incompleteness, End, and Wholeness	147	(3)
The Existential Analysis of Death in Contrast with all Other Kinds of Interpretation	150	(1)
A Preliminary Sketch of the Existential Structure of Death	151	(2)
Being-Toward-Death and Everydayness	153	(2)
Everyday Being Toward an End and the Full Existential Concept of Death	155	(3)
The Existential Structure of an Owned, Authentic Way of Being-Toward-Death	158	(5)
Witness to an Owned Existence and Authentic Resolution	163	(38)
Conscience as the Call of Care	163	(4)
Understanding the Call and Owing	167	(8)
Interpolation: Ground-Being and Nothing	175	(12)
Owing, Guilt, and Morality: The Authentic Hearing of the Call of Conscience and the Existential Structure of Owned or Authentic Existence	187	(14)
Authentic Ability-to-Be-a-Whole and Temporality as the Meaning of Care	201	(28)
Anticipatory Forward-Running Resoluteness as the Authentic Way of Being-a-Whole	201	(6)
Justification of the Methodical Basis of the Existential Analysis	207	(5)
Care and Selfhood	212	(5)
Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care	217	(8)
A Primordial Repetition of the Existential Analysis Arising from the Temporality of Here-Being [Da-sein]	225	(4)
Temporality and Everydayness	229	(66)
The Temporality of Disclosedness in General	230	(26)
The Temporality of Understanding	230	(6)
The Temporality of Attunement	236	(7)
The Temporality of Falling	243	(9)
The Temporality of Discourse	252	(4)
The Temporality of Being-in-the-World and the Problem of the Transcendence of the World	256	(28)
The Temporality of Circumspect Taking Care	257	(4)
The Temporal Meaning of the Way in Which Circumspect Taking Care Becomes Modified into the Theoretical Discovery of Things Objectively Present in the World	261	(15)
The Temporal Problem of the Transcendence of the World	276	(8)
The Temporality of the Roominess Characteristic of Here-Being	284	(6)
The Temporal Meaning of the Everydayness of Here-Being	290	(5)
Temporality and Historicity	295	(32)
The Vulgar Understanding of History and the Occurrence of Here-Being	300	(2)
The Essential Constitution of Historicity	302	(13)
The Historicity of Here-Being and World History	315	(12)
Temporality and Within:-Timeness as the Origin of the Vulgar Concept of Time	327	(36)
The Incompleteness of the Foregoing Analysis of the Temporality of Here-Being	327	(2)
The Temporality of Here-Being and the Taking Care of Time	329	(7)
Time Taken Care of and Within-Timeness	336	(7)
Within-Timeness and the Genesis of the Vulgar Concept of Time	343	(6)
The Contrast of the Existential and Ontological Connection of Temporality, Here-Being, and World-Time with Hegel's Interpretation of the Relation between Time and Spirit	349	(14)
Hegel's Concept of Time	351	(5)
Hegel's Interpretation of the Connection between Time and Spirit	356	(7)
Conclusions: An Attempt to Outline Heidegger's Answer to the Question Asked at the Beginning of Being and Time	363	(6)
Notes	369	(14)
Glossary of German Expressions	383	(4)
Index	387