Video Reading Guide for Being and Time
These videos are designed to help provide orientation and tips for getting the most out of B&T.
Prologue (‘Exergue’)
- Topics covered: the paradox of conceptual understanding; know-how versus knowing-that; the difference between beings (entities) and the being of beings; the sense in which time is “the horizon for any possible understanding of being whatsoever.”
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DIVISION ONE
Introductions 1 and 2
- Topics covered: The hermeneutic circle; understanding as know-how; why is the “existential analysis of Dasein” the basis for a “fundamental ontology” of being?; what is “Dasein”?; performing appropriately versus performing properly (“authentically”) within practices; what is hermeneutic or interpretive “phenomenology”?
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Chapter 1
- Topics covered: In what sense does the “essence” of Dasein lie in its “existence”?; the “mine-ness” of Dasein; and “average everydayness.”
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Chapter 2
- Topics covered: being-in-the world; knowing as a “founded mode of being-in,” or derivative mode of engagement.
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Chapter 3
- Topics covered: ontic versus ontological; “occurrent” (present-at-hand) beings versus “available” (ready-to-hand) beings; a critique of Descartes in terms of know-how.
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Chapter 4
- Topics covered: being-with others; the authority of the “they-self”; everydayness and authenticity
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Chapter 5
- Topics covered: mood and attunement; language, assertion, idle talk; falling and thrownness.
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Chapter 6
- Topics covered: the being of Dasein as care, or “thrown projection”; originary and derivative modes of “truth.”
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DIVISION TWO
Chapter 4
- Topics covered: death, temporality and authenticity; “ecstatic” and “horizonal” temporality in relation to space.
