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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to

Heidegger and Being and Time

Review of the first edition:

Mulhalls text is an impressive feat of exegesis. It will be seized uponby those facing the daunting prospect of reading Being and Time forthe first time.

Jim Urpeth, Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology

Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentiethcentury. His writings are notoriously difficult; they both require andreward careful reading. Being and Time, his first major publication,remains to this day his most influential work.

Heidegger and Being and Time introduces and assesses:

Heideggers life and the background to Being and Time The ideas and text of Being and Time Heideggers enduring influence in philosophy and our contem-

porary intellectual life

In this second edition, Stephen Mulhall expands and revises his treat-ment of two central Heideggerian themes scepticism, and death.He also explains and assesses the contentious relationship betweenthe two parts of Being and Time.

This guide will be vital to all students of Heidegger in philosophy andcultural theory.

Stephen Mulhall is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at New College,Oxford.

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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to

Heidegger and Being and TimeSecond Edition

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Stephen

Mulhall

First edition published 1996

Second edition published 2005 by Routledge2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

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1996, 2005 Stephen Mulhall

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Routledge philosophy guidebook to Heidegger and Being and time/Stephen Mulhall. 2nd ed.

p. cm. (Routledge philosophy guidebooks)Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.1. Heidegger, Martin, 18891976. Sein und Zeit.

I. Title: Heidegger and Being and time.II. Title. III. Series.B3279.H48S46654 2005111 dc22 2005004675

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CONTENTS

PREFACE viiPREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION xi

Introduction: Heideggers Project (18) 1The Question of Being 1Reclaiming the Question 8The Priority of Dasein 12Philosophy, History and Phenomenology 18Conclusion: Heideggers Design 26

1 The Human World: Scepticism, Cognition and Agency (924) 35The Cartesian Critique (1213) 39The Worldhood of the World (1424) 46

2 The Human World: Society, Selfhood and Self-interpretation (2532) 60Individuality and Community (257) 61Passions and Projects (2832) 73

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3 Language, Truth and Reality (334, 434) 89Language: Assertions and Discourse (334) 90Reality and Truth (434) 94

4 Conclusion to Division One: the Uncanniness of Everyday Life (3442) 106Falling into the World (348) 106Anxiety and Care (3942) 110Anxiety, Scepticism and Nihilism 114

5 Theology Secularized: Mortality, Guilt and Conscience (4560) 120Death and Mortality (4653) 122Excursus: Heidegger and Kierkegaard 134Guilt and Conscience (5460) 138The Attestation of Being and Time 143

6 Heideggers (Re)visionary Moment: Time as the Human Horizon (6171) 152Mortality and Nullity: the Form of Human Finitude (612) 153Philosophical Integrity and Authenticity (624) 155The Temporality of Care: Thrown Projection (658) 159The Temporality of Care: Being in the World (6970) 170Repetition and Projection (71) 178

7 Fate and Destiny: Human Natality and a Brief History of Time (7282) 181History and Historicality (725) 181The Lessons of History (767) 191On Being within Time (7882) 198

8 Conclusion to Division Two: Philosophical Endings the Horizon of Being and Time (83) 207Human Being and the Question of Being in General 207

BIBLIOGRAPHY 214INDEX 216

C O N T E N T Svi

PREFACE

Martin Heidegger was born in Messkirch on 26 September 1889. Aninterest in the priesthood led him to commence theological and philo-sophical studies at the University of Freiburg in 1909. A monographon the philosophy of Duns Scotus brought him a university teachingqualification, and in 1922 he was appointed to teach philosophy atthe University of Marburg. The publication of his first major work,Sein und Zeit (Being and Time), in 1927 catapulted him to prominenceand led to his being appointed to the Chair of Philosophy at Freiburgin 1928, succeeding his teacher and master, the phenomenologistEdmund Husserl. From April 1933 until his resignation in February1934, the early months of the Nazi regime, he was Rector of Freiburg.His academic career was further disrupted by the Second World Warand its aftermath: in 1944, he was enrolled in a work-brigade, andbetween 1945 and 1951 he was prohibited from teaching under thedeNazification rules of the Allied authorities. He was reappointedProfessor in 1951, and gave occasional seminars in his capacity asHonorary Professor until 1967, as well as travelling widely and partic-ipating in conferences and colloquia on his work. He continued to

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write until his death on 26 May 1976. He is buried in the local grave-yard of his birthplace, Messkirch.

This brief biographical sketch leaves much that is of importance inHeideggers life (particularly his destructive and ugly relations withNazism) unexplored; but it gives even less indication of the breadth,intensity and distinctiveness of his philosophical work and its impacton the development of the discipline in Europe. The publication of Beingand Time transformed him from a charismatic lecturer, well known inGerman academic life (Hannah Arendt said that descriptions of hislecture series circulated in Germany as if they were rumours of a hiddenking), into a figure of international significance. A steady stream of lectures, seminars and publications in the following decades merely broadened and intensified his influence. Sartrean existentialism, thehermeneutic theory and practice of Gadamer, and Derridean decon-struction all grew from the matrix of Heideggers thought; and thecognate disciplines of literary criticism, theology and psychoanalysiswere also importantly influenced by his work. To some, his preoccu-pations and, more importantly, the manner in which he thought andwrote about them signified only pretension, mystification and char-latanry. For many others, however, the tortured intensity of his prose,its breadth of reference in the history of philosophy, and its arrogantbut exhilarating implication that nothing less than the continuation ofWestern culture and authentic human life was at stake in his thought,signified instead that philosophy had finally returned to its true con-cerns in a manner that might justify its age-old claim to be the queenof the human sciences.

This book is an introduction for English-speaking readers to thetext that publically inaugurated Heideggers life-long philosophicalproject Being and Time.1 It aims to provide a perspicuous surviewof the structure of this complex and difficult work, clarifying its under-lying assumptions, elucidating its esoteric terminology and sketchingthe inner logic of its development. It takes very seriously the idea that it is intended to provide an introduction to a text rather than athinker or a set of philosophical problems. Although, of course, it isnot possible to provide guidance for those working through anextremely challengin