Being and Time

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), one of the most original and important philosophers of the twentieth century, spent most of his career at the University of Freiburg. His work deeply influenced many of the schools of modern philosophy, including existentialism, phenomenology, deconstructionism, and postmodernism. Cyril Welch is professor emeritus of philosophy at Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada.

“Cyril Welch’s accurate and elegantly written translation of Heidegger’s Being and Time provides the best available English translation of this difficult work. It makes a welcome contribution to the interpretation of Heidegger’s thought and of twentieth-century philosophy more generally.”—Jeffrey Andrew Barash, author of The Politics of Historical Interpretation: Reflections on Ideology and the Perplexities of Political Myth“Cyril Welch’s translation of Being and Time is a remarkable achievement. Welch has avoided the palimpsest of linguistic obfuscation that plagued earlier translations, while remaining true to the colloquial flavor of Heidegger’s German. At long last, English-speaking readers have at their disposal a lucid and readable translation of Heidegger’s 1927 masterpiece.”—Richard Wolin, author of Heidegger in Ruins