This important new book condenses and rephrases, paragraph by paragraph, the entirety of Heidegger's magnum opus Being and Time.
Leading Heidegger scholar Thomas Sheehan renders the text in reader-friendly language that avoids the worst of the Heideggerese that persists in the wider scholarship. He helpfully outlines each of the six chapters and, in turn, each of the eighty-three individual sections of the book, providing a critical and insightful commentary that draws on Heidegger’s comments on Being and Time throughout his career. The book also includes commentary and guidance on the terminology, scope, arguments, achievements, and limitations of Being and Time. This reader's guide is an essential resource for students, scholars and anyone engaging with Heidegger's complex work.
By:
Thomas Sheehan (Stanford University USA)
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Annotated edition
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 826g
ISBN: 9781786613417
ISBN 10: 1786613417
Series: New Heidegger Research
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 12 June 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations I. THE PARAPHRASE Heidegger’s Preface to the Seventh Edition (1953) The Untitled Exergue (1927) General Introduction to the Whole of Being and Time THE QUESTION OF HOW BEING IS UNDERSTOOD Chapter 1: The necessity, structure, and priority of this question §1 Necessity: the need to reopen this question §2 Structure: formulating the question §3 The ontological priority of ex-sistence §4 The ontic priority of ex-sistence Chapter 2: The two-fold task, the method, and the outline of Being and Time §5 SZ I: Fundamental ontology §6 SZ II: Dismantling the history of ontology §7 Method: Phenomenology §8 Outline of the book SZ, PART ONE FUNDAMENTAL ONTOLOGY DIVISION ONE: THE PREPARATORY ANALYSIS OF EX-SISTENCE Preface to SZ I.1 Chapter 1: The task of a preparatory analysis of ex-sistence §9 Introduction to the analysis of ex-sistence §10 Ex-sistential analysis vs. other approaches §11 So-called “primitive ex-sistence” and the need for “a natural conception of meaning” Chapter 2: Involved in meaning §12 Our involvement in meaning: a preliminary sketch §13 Subject-object thinking Chapter 3: The meaning-giving world §14 Introduction Subdivision A:The practical world of meaning §15 How we encounter useful things §16 How a world of praxis shows up §17 Signs: A special kind of useful thing §18 The structure of a world of praxis Subdivision B:Descartes’ interpretation of “world” Preface §19 Descartes: The being of material things is extension in space §20 Descartes: The “world” is comprised of extended substances §21 Descartes’ ontology of “world”: a hermeneutical discussion Subdivision C: The spatiality of worlds of praxis and of ex-sistence Preface §22 The spatiality of useful things §23 The spatiality of ex-sistence §24 The spatiality of the world and of ex-sistence. The ontology of space Chapter 4Who I am in everyday living Preface §25 The question of who I usually am §26 Sociality: my own and that of other people §27 My crowd-self Chapter 5: Involvement as such §28 Involvement itself (In-Sein): An overview Subdivision A: The field of intelligibility: its ex-sistential structure §29 Affect holds open intelligibility §30 Fear is a mode of affect §31 Aheadness holds open intelligibility §32 Working out the projectedmeaning §33 Declarative sentences §34 Ex-sistence as logos Subdivision B: The field of intelligibility: its absorbed modes Preface §35 Casual talk §36 Curiosity §37 Ambiguity §38 Absorption and movement Chapter 6: Ex-sistence as engaged §39 Introduction to ex-sistence as a unified whole §40 Experiencing ex-sistence through dread §41 Engaged in making sense §42 A fable about cura §43 Realness §44 Ex-sistence and “truth” II. THE ANNOTATIONS Heidegger’s Preface to the Seventh Edition (1953) The Untitled Exergue (1927) General introduction to the whole of Being And Time: The question of how being it understood Chapter 1: The necessity, structure, and priority of this quesrtion §1 Necessity: the need to reopen this question §2 Structure: formulating the question §3 The ontological priority of ex-sistence §4 The ontic priority of ex-sistence Chapter 2: The two-fold task, the method, and the outline of Being and Time §5 SZ I: Fundamental ontology §6 SZ II: Dismantling the history of ontology §7 Method: henomenology §8 Outline of the book SZ, PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL ONTOLOGY Division One: The Preparatory Analysis of Ex-Sistence Preface to SZ I Chapter 1: The task of a preparatory analysis of ex-sistence §9 Introduction to the analysis of ex-sistence §10 Ex-sistential analysis vs. other approaches §11 So-called “primitive ex-sistence” and the need for “a natural conception of meaning” Chapter 2: Ex-sistence is involved in meaning §12 Our involvement in meaning: a preliminary sketch §13 Subject-object thinking Chapter 3: The meaning-giving world §14 Introduction Subdivision A: Practical worlds of meanings §15 Useful things §16 How a world of praxis shows up §17 Signs: A special kind of useful thing §18 The structure of a world of praxis Subdivision B: Descartes’ interpretation of “world” Preface §19 Descartes: The being of material things is extension in space §20 Descartes: The “world” is comprised of extended substances §21 Descartes’ ontology of “world”: A hermeneutical discussion Subdivision C: The spatiality of worlds of praxis and of ex-sistence Preface §22 The spatiality of useful things §23 The spatiality of ex-sistence itself §24 The spatiality of the world and of ex-sistence. The ontology of space Chapter 4Who I am in everyday living Preface §25 The question of who I usually am §26 Sociality: my own and that of other people §27 My crowd-self Chapter 5: Involvement as such §28 Involvement itself (In-Sein): An overview Subdivision A: The field of intelligibility: its ex-sistential structure §29 Affect holds open intelligibility §30 Fear is a mode of affect §31 Aheadness holds open intelligibility §32 Working out the projected meaning §33 Declarative sentences §34 Ex-sistence as logos Subdivision B: The field of intelligibility: its absorbed modes Preface §35 Casual talk §36 Curiosity §37 Ambiguity §38 Absorption and movement Chapter 6: Ex-sistence as engaged §39 Introduction to ex-sistence as a unified whole §40 Experiencing ex-sistence through dread §41 Engaged in making sense §42 A fable about cura §43 Realness §44 Ex-sistence and “truth” APPENDICES Bibliographies 1. Heidegger’s German Texts and Their English Translations 307 1.1 Texts within the Gesamtausgabe 1.2 Texts outside the Gesamtausgabe 2. Other Texts Cited Terminology German to English English to German Index
Thomas Sheehan is professor of religious studies at Stanford University and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, USA
Reviews for Heidegger's Being and Time: Paraphrased and Annotated, Volume 1
Thomas Sheehan's book is a tour de force, an ingenious reading of Heidegger's Being and Time that in effect translates Heidegger's difficult German into a section-by-section paraphrase. Drawing on decades of teaching and research, Sheehan's text gives you the sense of attending an incisive seminar given by a master teacher. --Lawrence J. Hatab, Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Old Dominion University Sheehan's invaluable 'paraphrase' pays rigorous attention to the text, its time, and Heidegger's commitment to phenomenology. Even more important is Sheehan's interpretation of Heidegger's question of being as the question of intelligibility, the way things mean or matter to us. I know no more helpful guide to Heidegger's masterpiece. --Robert B. Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, author of The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy Thomas Sheehan's monumental study of Being and Time includes a paraphrase that eschews Heideggerian jargon; a copiously annotated commentary; and an argument about sense-making. Beginners will relish the illuminating paraphrase; scholars will benefit from the erudite annotations; and anyone will benefit from engaging with the argument. Comprehensive, congenial, controversial: unavoidable. --Steven Crowell, Mullen Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Rice University Thoughtful and judicious as only the product of more than a half-century of nonpareil, often contrarian interpretations of Germany's most controversial philosopher can be, Sheehan's work is a genuine 'guide for the perplexed, ' immediately becoming the go-to resource for anyone trying to come to grips with Heidegger's timeless masterpiece. --Daniel O. Dahlstrom, John R. Silber Professor of Philosophy, Boston University
