Being and Time
Decide its fate
The record
Time
An eveningA season656 pages, about 13 hours: the length of 2.0 typical books on the shelf.
Getting in
Walk right inSteep climbOne reader reports the opening pages, the foreword and translator’s notes, were a slow start before the text improved.
What it gives
Plot and actionIdeas to live byIn 10 reviews from critics and book blogs, 4 credit the plot and 10 credit the ideas or a change in how they live.
One of a kind
Others do thisNothing else doesA Substack post lists Sartre’s Being and Nothingness first among books Heidegger influenced, and a blog traces his idea of anxiety to Kierkegaard.
The case for it
on the Stambaugh translation
“the more recent translation is certainly the more readable of the two”
Paul Gorner · Heidegger's Being and Time: An Introduction, 2007 on the M&R translation
“you can see the gears and cogs”
a book blog on das Man
“Even the analysis of the They feels prophetic.”
a book blog on sticking with it
“Meaning emerges through repetition and persistence, promise!”
a Substack review
The case against
on the new terminology
“The principle on which he seems to be designing his new terminology is, I should judge, the hypothesis that certain ‘nursery’ words and phrases have a primitiveness and freedom from sophistication which makes them more nearly adequate expressions of really primitive Meanings than the technical terms which science and philosophy in the course of a long development have established. The hypothesis seems to me a perilous one, for it is at least arguable that it is here, and not in the language of the village and the nursery, that mankind has made a partial escape from metaphor.”
Gilbert Ryle · Mind, July 1929 on the second division
“the second division is so muddled”
a book blog on the slow progress
“Every two pages I spend on Heidegger is a hard-won battle.”
a book blog on the technical terms
“There are technical terms introduced that go undeveloped.”
a book blog
