Heidegger's Being and Time

Catalog description

Heidegger's Being and Time is one of the most influential philosophical books of this century. Students are required to study the primary text of assigned parts of the Introductions and selected sections from all chapters of Divisions One and Two. The course will emphasize Dasein's fundamental characteristics, care and its relation to temporality, and anticipatory resoluteness. It will also examine Heidegger's analysis of phenomena such as Dasein's use of equipment, its relation to another Dasein, fear, anxiety, inauthenticity, and authenticity. Special attention will be given to the following chapters: "Care as the Being of Dasein," "Dasein's Authentic Potentiality-For-Being-A-Whole," and "Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care."