Being-in-the-World

A Commentary on Heidegger's Being in Time, Division I

Hubert L. Dreyfus (Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley)

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English

Massachusetts Inst of Tec
14 December 1990

Philosophy; History of Western philosophy

Series: A Bradford Book

Being-in-the-World is a guide to one of the most influential philosophical works of this century- Division I of Part One of Being and Time, where Martin Heidegger works out an original and powerful account of being-in-the-world which he then uses to ground a profound critique of traditional ontology and epistemology. Hubert Dreyfus's commentary opens the way for a new appreciation of this difficult philosopher, revealing a rigorous and illuminating vocabulary that is indispensable for talking about the phenomenon of world.

The publication of Being and Time in 1927 turned the academic world on its head. Since then it has become a touchstone for philosophers as diverse as Marcuse, Sartre, Foucault, and Derrida who seek an alternative to the rationalist Cartesian tradition of western philosophy. But Heidegger's text is notoriously dense, and his language seems to consist of unnecessarily barbaric neologisms; to the neophyte and even to those schooled in Heidegger thought, the result is often incomprehensible.

Dreyfus's approach to this daunting book is straightforward and pragmatic. He explains the text by frequent examples drawn from everyday life, and he skillfully relates Heidegger's ideas to the questions about being and mind that have preoccupied a generation of cognitive scientists and philosophers of mind.

By: Hubert L. Dreyfus (Professor of Philosophy University of California Berkeley)
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9780262540568
ISBN 10: 0262540568
Series: A Bradford Book
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 14 December 1990
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.

Reviews for Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being in Time, Division I

Mainstream philosophers ... have never come up with a satisfactory account that translates Heidegger into their own language... That should change very soon, with the publication this year of Hubert Dreyfus's Being-in-the-world. The fruit of 25 years of teaching the subject at Berkeley, it is undoubt, edly one of the clearest accounts of Heidegger's thought to date. --Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review