Being and Time

Joan Stambaugh is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She has published extensively and is the author of The Real is Not the Rational; The Finitude of Being; The Other Nietzsche; and is the translator of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, all published by SUNY Press. Dennis J. Schmidt is Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and German at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park. He is the author of On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life and The Ubiquity of the Finite: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Entitlements of Philosophy. Dennis J. Schmidt is Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and German at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park. He is the author of On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life and The Ubiquity of the Finite: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Entitlements of Philosophy.

• ForewordTranslator’s PrefaceAuthor’s Preface to the Seventh German Edition[Exergue]INTRODUCTION: The Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of BeingI. The Necessity, Structure, and Priority of the Question of Being 1. The Necessity of an Explicit Repetition of the Question of Being2. The Formal Structure of the Question of Being3. The Ontological Priority of the Question of Being4. The Ontic Priority of the Question of BeingII. The Double Task in Working Out the Question of Being: The Method of the Investigation and Its Outline 5. The Ontological Analysis of Dasein as Exposing the Horizon for an Interpretation of the Meaning of Being in General6. The Task of a Destruction of the History of Ontology7. The Phenomenological Method of the Investigation A. The Concept of PhenomenonB. The Concept of LogosC. The Preliminary Concept of Phenomenology 8. The Outline of the TreatisePART ONE: The Interpretation of Dasein in Terms of Temporality and the Explication of Time as the Transcendental Horizon of the Question of Being DIVISION ONE: The Preparatory Fundamental Analysis of Dasein I. The Exposition of the Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Dasein 9. The Theme of the Analytic of Dasein10. How the Analytic of Dasein is to be Distinguished from Anthropology, Psychology, and Biology11. The Existential Analytic and the Interpretation of Primitive Dasein: The Difficulties in Securing a "Natural Concept of World"II. Being-in-the-World in General as the Fundamental Constitution of Dasein 12. The Preliminary Sketch of Being-in-the-World in Terms of the Orientation toward Being-in as Such13. The Exemplification of Being-in in a Founded Mode: Knowing the World III. The Worldliness of the World 14. The Idea of the Worldliness of the World in General A. Analysis of Environmentality and Worldliness in General 15. The Being of Beings Encountered in the Surrounding World 16. The Worldly Character of the Surrounding World Announcing Itself in Innerworldly Beings17. Reference and Signs18. Relevance and Significance: The Worldliness of the World B. The Contrast Between Our Analysis of Worldliness and Descartes’ Interpretation of the World 19. The Determination of the "World" as Res Extensa 20. The Fundaments of the Ontological Definition of the "World"21. The Hermeneutical Discussion of the Cartesian Ontology of the "World" C. The Aroundness of the Surrounding World and the Spatiality of Dasein 22. The Spatiality of Innerworldly Things at Hand 23. The Spatiality of Being-in-the-World24. The Spatiality of Dasein and Space IV. Being-in-the-World as Being-with and Being a Self: The "They" 25. The Approach to the Existential Question of the Who of Dasein 26. The Dasein-with of Others and Everyday Being-with 27. Everyday Being a Self and the They V. Being-in as Such 28. The Task of a Thematic Analysis of Being-in A. The Existential Constitution of the There 29. Da-sein as Attunement 30. Fear as a Mode of Attunement 31. Da-sein as Understanding 32. Understanding and Interpretation 33. Statement as a Derivative Mode of Interpretation 34. Da-sein and Discourse. Language B. The Everyday Being of the There and the Falling Prey of Dasein 35. Idle Talk 36. Curiosity37. Ambiguity 38. Falling Prey and Thrownness VI. Care as the Being of Dasein 39. The Question of the Primordial Totality of the Structural Whole of Dasein 40. The Fundamental Attunement of Anxiety as an Eminent Disclosedness of Dasein 41. The Being of Dasein as Care42. Confirmation of the Existential Interpretation of Dasein as Care in Terms of the Pre-ontological Self-interpretation of Dasein 43. Dasein, Worldliness, and Reality a. Reality as a Problem of Being and the Demonstratability of the "External World" b. Reality as an Ontological Problem c. Reality and Care 44. Dasein, Disclosedness, and Truth a. The Traditional Concept of Truth and Its Ontological Foundationsb. The Primordial Phenomenon of Truth and the Derivative Character of the Traditional Concept of Truth c. The Kind of Being of Truth and the Presupposition of Truth DIVISION TWO: Dasein and Temporality 45. The Result of the Preparatory Fundamental Analysis of Dasein and the Task of a Primordial, Existential Interpretation of this BeingI. The Possible Being-a-Whole of Dasein and Being-toward-Death 46. The Seeming Impossibility of Ontologically Grasping and Determining Dasein as a Whole 47. The Possibility of Experiencing the Death of Others and the Possibility of Grasping Dasein as a Whole 48. What is Outstanding, End, and Wholeness 49. How the Existential Analysis of Death Differs from Other Possible Interpretations of this Phenomenon 50. A Preliminary Sketch of the Existential and Ontological Structure of Death 51. Being-toward-Death and the Everydayness of Dasein 52. Everyday Being-toward-Death and the Complete Existential Concept of Death 53. Existential Project of an Authentic Being-toward- Death II. The Attestation of Dasein of an Authentic Potentiality-of-Being and Resoluteness 54. The Problem of the Attestation of an Authentic Existentiell Possibility55. The Existential and Ontological Foundations of Conscience 56. The Character of Conscience as a Call 57. Conscience as the Call of Care 58. Understanding the Summons and Guilt59. The Existential Interpretation of Conscience and the Vulgar Interpretation of Conscience 60. The Existential Structure of the Authentic Potentiality-of-Being Attested to in Conscience III. The Authentic Potentiality-for-Being-a-Whole of Dasein,and Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care 61. Preliminary Sketch of the Methodological Step from Outlining the Authentic Being-as-a-Whole of Dasein to the Phenomenal Exposition of Temporality 62. The Existentielly Authentic Potentiality-for- Being-Whole of Dasein as Anticipatory Resoluteness 63. The Hermeneutical Situation at Which We Have Arrived for Interpreting the Meaning of Being of Care, and the Methodological Character of the Existential Analytic in General 64. Care and Selfhood 65. Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care 66. The Temporality of Dasein and the Tasks of a More Primordial Repetition of the Existential Analysis Arising from it IV. Temporality and Everydayness 67. The Basic Content of the Existential Constitution of Dasein, and the Preliminary Sketch of Its Temporal Interpretation68. The Temporality of Disclosedness in General a. The Temporality of Understanding b. The Temporality of Attunement c. The Temporality of Falling Prey d. The Temporality of Discourse 69. The Temporality of Being-in-the-World and the Problem of the Transcendence of the World a. The Temporality of Circumspect Taking Care b. The Temporal Meaning of the Way in which Circumspect Taking Care Becomes Modifed into the Theoretical Discovery o