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Being and Time | 
 enlarge | Author: Martin Heidegger
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 12770
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 608
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0061575593
Dewey Decimal Number: 210
EAN: 9780061575594
ASIN: 0061575593
Publication Date: August 1, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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"What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism—as well as existentialism and much of postmodern thought—Being and Time forever changed the intellectual map of the modern world. As Richard Rorty wrote in the New York Times Book Review, "You cannot read most of the important thinkers of recent times without taking Heidegger's thought into account." This first paperback edition of John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson's definitive translation also features a new foreword by Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman.
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 This is the translation to buy! July 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Being and Time is not a book you can pick up off the shelf and read unless you have a sufficient understanding of the philosophy that came before its publication in 1929. One should not even attempt this book without an understanding of such philosophers as Descartes, Kant, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche among many others. Also, Being and Time is so difficult because Heidegger was running up against the limits of language while writing. Hence, one has to learn an entirely new language to make sense of what he is saying because he is describing something for which language does not exist. What comes out of this is that this is a very slow read because certain words must be fully understood before moving on or else you will not understand what you are reading. For instance, I read this book so slowly that every page felt like ten pages, or the 488 pages felt like 4,880. In the end though, this book was only comprehensible by reading several books about the book. William Blattner's Reader's Guide to Being and Time is particularly good as well as anything from William Wrathall and Alfred Dreyfus. Dreyfus also has his lecture courses on Being and Time posted as a Podcast on itunes.
A new perspective on the world January 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellent foundation to modern positions that provide an alternative to the objective-relative debate in philosophy. While terribly difficult and challenging to understanding without hours of work and dialogue with others, this is the best translated version. When you examine philosophy you must understand it through it's historical growth, and this book is a major branch in that evolution.
Heidegger Anticipated Blogosphere by 80 Years December 24, 2007
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is not a dry, scholarly review. Like a lot of you, I was exposed to excerpts of Heidegger in high school. Or maybe it was undergrad. Regardless, these small bites of undigested Sein und Zeit stuck with me for years. So on a lazy summer afternoon in 1999 I got the great idea to have a real go at it. I even picked up a new translation:Being and Time: A Translation of Sein and Zeit (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) and the co-published and co-marketed A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) which I have to say was very helpful. Sometimes analysis is better than the source material, and this may be the case with these twin volumes. Six months later, it was Christmas and time for happier pursuits. I fell short of my goal, but feel well prepared to have another go at it -- if I feel the need. Anyway, it turns out that perhaps the best way to appreciate Heidegger is through what today we would call soundbites. Coherence often eludes great thinkers for a time, but the greatest eventually catch up with it. Not so with Heidegger, though understandably most people who take the time to get vested in a philosopher's corpus will object. Perhaps you object. Good for you. Really. My point is simply that blogs were made for people who think like Heidegger, though perhaps we are all fortunate that no one quite has since... nichtzuhausen indeed.
Need to learn german language. September 26, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I think that this is the most important work into XX century philosophy. But if you really want to understand "Sein und Zeit" is very important that you read the book in Heidegger's maternal language: german.
 Disappointed with service. June 14, 2007
0 out of 25 found this review helpful
Within minutes of entering the order, thinking I had not yet done so, I emailed the company asking to delete this order. I received no reply. Book itself is excellent; unfortunately I ordered it twice, and this agent failed even to respond to my request [I admit AFTER I mistakenly entered the order] to delete.
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