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Richard Sembera introduces the reader to the essential features of Being and Time, Heidegger's main work in clear and unambiguous English. He dispels the nimbus of unintelligibility surrounding Heidegger's thought, a nimbus that Heidegger himself helped create and that has tended to confine serious Heidegger scholarship to closed circles.This is not a work about the "exisistentialist" Heidegger, the "Nazi" Heidegger, the "gnostic" Heidegger, or the "mystic" Heidegger. Nor is is a "diluted" Heidegger for beginners. Rephrasing Heidegger interprets the philosopher on his own terms, covering all the main aspects of Being and Time, and is particularly interesting for its detailed analysis of the structure and contents of this epoch-making philosophical work.Rephrasing Heidegger includes a unique glossary of technical terms which recur frequently throughout Being and Time whose translation is problematic or uncertain. It also includes a German-English lexicon which catalogues the translations of Heidegger’s terms in the most important English translations of Being and Time.This is the first detailed commentary in English by a Heidegger specialist trained at Heidegger's own university by the world-renowned Heidegger scholar Prof. F.-W. von Herrman, the editor of the most important volumes of Heidegger's collected works in German.
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REPHRASING HEIDEGGER
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REPULSING HEIDEGGER A Companion to Being and Time
RICHARO SEMBERA
THE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA PRESS OTTAWA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction
xi
Chapter 1: The Origins of Phenomenology 1.1 The History of the Term "Phenomenology"
1
1.2 The "Crisis" of European Science
7
1.3 Husserl's Phenomenological Foundation
13
1.4 Heidegger's Hermeneutics of Facticity
20
1.5 The Vicissitudes of the Phenomenological Movement
28
Chapter 2: Hermeneutic Phenomenology as Fundamental Ontology 2.1 Understanding versus Perception
33
2.2 Why Ask the Question of Being? (§§ 1-4)
38
2.3 The Structure of the Book Being and Time (§§5,6,8)
45
2.4 Heidegger's Concept of Phenomenology (§ 7)
53
2.5 The Everyday World (§§ 9-27)
62
a) The Worldliness of the World
64
b) The One-self
76
2.6 The Indifferent Mode of Being-in (§§ 28-34): Sensibility, Understanding, and Talk
82
a) Sensibility
83
b) Understanding
85
c)Talk
91
2.7 The Inauthentic Mode of Being-in (§§ 35-38): Turmoil, Curiosity, and Crosstalk
100
a) Crosstalk
101
b) Curiosity
103
c) Ambiguity
105
d) Turmoil
106
e) Falling
107
2.8 Authentic Sensibility: Angst (§§ 39-40)
108
2.9 The Primeval Structure of Dasein as Concern (§§41-42)
117
2.10 Reality and Truth (§§ 43-44)
124
a) Concern, Truth, and Authenticity
125
b) Being, Entities, and Dasein\
132
Chapter 3: The Timing of Timeliness 3.1 The Problem of Completeness and Authenticity (§§45-46) 141 3.2 Authentic Understanding: Death (§§ 47-53)
147
3.3 Authentic Talk: The Call of Conscience (§§54-60)
163
3.4 The Structure of Authenticity as Decidedness (§§61-62)
178
3.5 Timeliness as the Sense of Concern (§§ 63-66)
188
a) The Future: Advent
192
b) The Past: Continuance
192
c) The Present: Encounter
193
d) The Ecstatic Structure of Timeliness
194
3.6 Timeli