The Routledge guidebook to Heidegger's Being and time

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Introduction : Heidegger's project -- The human world : scepticism, cognition and agency -- The human world : society, selfhood and self-interpretation -- Language, truth and reality -- Conclusion to division one : the uncanniness of everyday life -- Theology secularized : mortality, guilt and conscience -- Heidegger's (re)visionary moment : time as the human horizon -- Fate and destiny : human natality and a brief history of time -- Conclusion to division two : philosophical endings--the horizon of being and time.;"The Routledge guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time examines the work of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Heidegger's writings are notoriously difficult, requiring careful reading. This book analyses his first major publication, Being and Time, which to this day remains his most influential work. The Routledge guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time explores: The context of Heidegger's work and the background to his writing. Each separate part of the text in relation to its goals, meanings ..."--Publisher description.