Heidegger, Being and Time

Heidegger's Being and Time

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Karsten Harries

Heidegger's Being and Time

Seminar Notes Spring Semester 2014

Yale University

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Copyright Karsten Harries karsten.harries@yale.edu

Heidegger's Being and Time Contents 1. Introduction 2. Ontology and Fundamental Ontology 3. Methodological Considerations 4. Being-in-the-World 5. The World 6. Who am I? 7. Understanding, Interpretation, Language 8. Care and Truth 9. The Entirety of Dasein 10. Conscience, Guilt, Resolve 11. Time and Subjectivity 12. History and the Hero 13. Conclusion

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1. Introduction

1 In this seminar I shall be concerned with Heidegger's Being and Time. I shall refer to other works by Heidegger, but the discussion will center on Being and Time. In reading the book, some of you, especially those with a reading knowledge of German, may find the lectures of the twenties helpful, which have appeared now as volumes of the Gesamtausgabe. Many of these have by now been translated. I am thinking especially of GA 17 Einf?hrung in die ph?nomenologische Forschung (1923/24); Introduction to Phenomenological Research, trans. Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005) GA 20 Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs (1925); History of the Concept of Time, trans. Theodore Kisiel (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1985) GA 21 Logik. Die Frage nach der Wahrheit (1925/26). Logic: The Question of Truth, trans. Thomas Sheehan GA 24 Die Grundprobleme der Ph?nomenologie (1927); The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, trans. Albert Hofstadter (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1982) GA 26 Metaphysische Anfangsgr?nde der Logik im Ausgang von Leibniz (1928); The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic, trans. Michael Heim (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1984) GA 29/30 Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik (1929/30); The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics World, Finitude, Solitude, trans. William McNeill and Nicholas Walker (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1995. GA 60 Ph?nomenologie des religi?sen Lebens (1920/21); The Phenomenology of Religious Life, trans. Matthias Fritsch and Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2004) But I do not expect most of you to read any of these. Being and Time is quite enough. I am not recommending any secondary literature, at least not initially. If you want an overview of Heidegger's development, I recommend R?diger Safranski's Ein Meister aus Deutschland, translated as Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil. Walter Biemel's

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Martin Heidegger, translated into English as Martin Heidegger: An Illustrated Study is helpful. I prefer Otto P?ggeler's Martin Heidegger's Path of Thinking. I cannot really recommend any of the commentaries on Being and Time. I considered ordering Stephen Munhall's recently revised commentary1 and making you write a review. It is clear and responsible, but it does not dig very deeply. So I gave up on that idea. You do better to concentrate on the text. Genuinely helpful is Theodore Kisiel's Genesis of Being and Time. But more important than consulting the secondary literature would be turning to the sources of Heidegger's thinking, above all to Aristotle, but also to Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, and, of course, Husserl.

2 In approaching Being and Time it is helpful to keep in mind that the book, as we have it, contains only the first two sections of part one, that is to say roughly one third of the envisioned work. That the book we have is only a fragment of the work envisioned at the time is made clear in paragraph 8, which presents us with a sketch of the "Design of the Treatise" (SZ 39-40)2 -- with its rushed publication Heidegger responded to pressure by the dean of the philosophical faculty at Marburg, which had chosen him to succeed Nicolai Hartmann, but was informed by the ministry in Berlin that a major publication was needed (GA14, 99)3. That "Design" tells us that the book we now have contains only the first two sections of Part One, that is to say roughly one third of the envisioned two part work. As Heidegger explains the overall design:

If we are to arrive at the basic concept of `Being' and to outline the ontological conceptions which it requires and the variations which it necessarily undergoes, we need a clue which is concrete. We shall proceed towards the concept of Being by way of an Interpretation of a

1 Stephen Munhall, Heidegger;'s Being and Time, 2nd. ed. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013) . 2 GA2 Sein und Zeit (1927); Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (New York: Harper and Row, 1962). Page references are to the 7th edition of SZ, 1953. 3 GA14 Zur Saches des Denkens (1969); Tr. On Time and Being, trans. Joan Stambaugh (New York: Harper and Row, 1972)

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