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
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
- Topics covered: Concepts of “world”; knowing the world (Descartes) versus being-in-the-world (Heidegger); Descartes’ mistake; handiness (Zuhandenheit) versus objective presence (Vorhandenheit); equipment totalities; lived space
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Chapter 4
- Topics covered: The question of the “who” of Dasein; the concept of ‘being-with’ others; the concept of “the they” (Das Man)
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Chapter 5
- Topics covered: What it means to say that “Dasein is its there”; temporality, “thrownness” and “projection”; understanding versus knowing; death as each’s “ownmost possibility”; authenticity, death, and the ‘who’ of Dasein
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Chapter 6
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DIVISION TWO
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