Being and Time


Table of Contents


CONTENTS


Preface



Introduction

SuZ BaT
Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being 2 21
I. THE NECESSITY, STRUCTURE, AND PRIORITY OF THE QUESTION OF BEING 2 21
1. The necessity for explicitly restating the question of Being 2 21
2. The formal structure of the question of Being 5 24
3. The ontological priority of the question of Being 8 28
4. The ontical priority of the question of Being 11 32
II. THE TWOFOLD TASK IN WORKING OUT THE QUESTION OF BEING. METHOD AND DESIGN OF OUR INVESTIGATION 15 36
5. The ontological analytic of Dasein as laying bare the horizon for an Interpretation of the meaning of Being in general 15 36
6. The task of Destroying the history of ontology 19 41
7. The phenomenological method of investigation 27 49
A. The concept of phenomenon 28 51
B. The concept of the logos 32 55
C. The preliminary conception of phenomenology 34 58
8. Design of the treatise 39 63

Part One

The Interpretation of Dasein in Terms of Temporality, and the Explication of Time as the Transcendental Horizon for the Question of Being

DIVISION ONE: PREPARATORY FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS OF DASEIN


I. EXPOSITION OF THE TASK OF A PREPARATORY ANALYSIS OF DASEIN 41 67
9. The theme of the analytic of Dasein 41 67
10. How the analytic of Dasein is to be distinguished from anthropology, psychology, and biology 45 71
11. The existential analytic and the Interpretation of primitive Dasein. The difficulties of achieving a 'natural conception of the world' 50 76

II. BEING-IN-THE-WORLD IN GENERAL AS THE BASIC STATE OF DASEIN 52 78
12. A preliminary sketch of Being-in-the-world, in terms of an orientation towards Being-in as such 52 78
13. A founded mode in which Being-in is exemplified. Knowing the world 59 86

III. THE WORLDHOOD OF THE WORLD 63 91
14. The idea of the worldhood of the world in general 63 91
A. Analysis of environmentality and worldhood in general 66 95
15. The Being of the entities encountered in the environment 66 95
16. How the worldly character of the environment announces itself in entities within-the-world 72 102
17. Reference and signs 76 107
18. Involvement and significance: the worldhood of the world 83 114
B. A contrast between our analysis of worldhood and Descartes' Interpretation of the world 89 122
19. The definition of the 'world' as res extensa 89 123
20. Foundations of the ontological definition of the 'world' 92 125
21. Hermeneutical discussion of the Cartesian ontology of the 'world' 95 128
C. The aroundness of the environment, and Dasein's spatiality 101 134
22. The spatiality of the ready-to-hand within-the-world 102 135
23. The spatiality of Being-in-the-world 104 138
24. Space, and Dasein's spatiality 110 145

IV. BEING-IN-THE-WORLD AS BEING-WITH AND BEING-ONE'S-SELF. THE 'THEY' 113 149
25. An approach to the existential question of the "who" of Dasein 114 150
26. The Dasein-with of Others, and everyday Being-with 117 153
27. Everyday Being-one's-Self and the "they" 126 163

V. BEING-IN AS SUCH
28. The task of a thematic analysis of Being-in 130 169
A. The existential Constitution of the "there" 134 172
29. Being-there as state-of-mind 134 172
30. Fear as a mode of state-of-mind 140 179
31. Being-there as understanding 142 182
32. Understanding and interpretation 148 182
33. Assertion as a derivative mode of interpretation 153 195
34. Being-there and discourse. Language 160 203
B. The everyday Being of the "there" and the falling of Dasein 166 210
35. Idle talk 167 211
36. Curiosity 170 214
37. Ambiguity 173 217
38. Falling and thrownness 175 219

VI. CARE AS THE BEING OF DASEIN 180 225
39. The question of the primordial totality of Dasein's structural whole 180 225
40. The basic state-of-mind of anxiety as a distinctive way in which Dasein is disclosed 184 228
41. Dasein's Being as care 191 235
42. Confirmation of the existential Interpretation of Dasein as care in terms of Dasein's pre-ontological way of interpreting itself 196 241
43. Dasein, worldhood, and Reality 200 244
(a) Reality as a problem of Being, and whether the 'external world' can be proved 202 246
(b) Reality as an ontological problem 209 252
(c) Reality and care 211 254
44. Dasein, disclosedness, and truth 212 256
(a) The traditional conception of truth, and its ontological foundations 214 257
(b) The primordial phenomenon of truth and the derivative character of the traditional conception of truth 219 262
(c) The kind of Being which truth possesses, and the presupposition of truth 226 269

DIVISION TWO: DASEIN AND TEMPORALITY


45. The outcome of the preparatory fundamental analysis of Dasein, and the task of a primordial existential Interpretation of this entity 231 274

I. DASEIN'S POSSIBILITY OF BEING-A-WHOLE, AND BEING-TOWARDS-DEATH 235 279
46. The seeming impossibility of getting Dasein's Being-a-whole into our grasp ontologically and determining its character 235 279
47. The possibility of experiencing the death of Others, and the possibility of getting a whole Dasein into our grasp 237 281
48. That which is still outstanding; the end; totality 241 285
49. How the existential analysis of death is distinguished from other possible Interpretations of this phenomenon 246 290
50. Preliminary sketch of the existential-ontological structure of death 249 293
51. Being-towards-death and the everydayness of Dasein 252 296
52. Everyday Being-towards-the-end, and the full existential conception of death 255 299
53. Existential projection of an authentic Being-towards-death 260 304

II. DASEIN'S ATTESTATION OF AN AUTHENTIC POTENTIALITY-FOR-BEING, AND RESOLUTENESS 267 312
54. The problem of how an authentic existentiell possibility is attested 267 312
55. The existential-ontological foundations of conscience 270 315
56. The character of conscience as a call 272 317
57. Conscience as the call of care 274 319
58. Understanding the appeal, and guilt 280 325
59. The existential Interpretation of the conscience, and the way conscience is ordinarily interpreted 289 335
60. The existential structure of the authentic potentiality-for-Being which is attested in the conscience 295 341

III. AUTHENTIC POTENTIALITY-FOR-BEING-A-WHOLE, AND TEMPORALITY AS THE ONTOLOGICAL MEANING OF CARE 301 349
61. A preliminary sketch of the methodological step from the definition of Dasein's authentic Being-a-whole to the laying-bare of temporality as a phenomenon 301 349
62. Anticipatory resoluteness as the way in which Dasein's potentiality-for-Being-a-whole has existentiell authenticity 305 352
63. The hermeneutical situation at which we have arrived for Interpreting the meaning of the Being of care; and the methodological character of the existential analytic in general 310 358
64. Care and selfhood 316 364
65. Temporality as the ontological meaning of care 323 370
66. Dasein's temporality and the tasks arising there-from of repeating the existential analysis in a more primordial manner 331 380

IV. TEMPORALITY AND EVERY DAYNESS 334 383
67. The basic content of Dasein's existential constitution, and a preliminary sketch of the temporal Interpretation of it 334 383
68. The temporality of disclosedness in general 335 384
(a) The temporality of understanding 336 385
(b) The temporality of state-of-mind 339 389
(c) The temporality of falling 346 396
(d) The temporality of discourse 349 400
69. The temporality of Being-in-the-world and the problem of the transcendence of the world 350 401
(a) The temporality of circumspective concern 352 403
(b) The temporal meaning of the way in which circumspective concern becomes modified into the theoretical discovery of the present-at-hand within-the-world 336 408
(c) The temporal problem of the transcendence of the world 364 415
70. The temporality of the spatiality that is characteristic of Dasein 367 418
71. The temporal meaning of Dasein's everydayness 370 421

V. TEMPORALITY AND HISTORICALITY 372 424
72. Existential-ontological exposition of the problem of history 372 424
73. The ordinary understanding of history, and Dasein's historizing 378 429
74. The basic constitution of historicality 382 434
75. Dasein's historicality, and world-history 387 439
76. The existential source of historiology in Dasein's historicality 392 444
77. The connection of the foregoing exposition of the problem of historicality with the researches of Wilhelm Dilthey and the ideas of Count Yorck 397 449

VI. TEMPORALITY AND WITHIN-TIME-NESS AS THE SOURCE OF THE ORDINARY CONCEPTION OF TIME 404 456
78. The incompleteness of the foregoing temporal analysis of Dasein 404 456
79. Dasein's temporality, and our concern with time 406 458
80. The time with which we concern ourselves, and within-time-ness 411 464
81. Within-time-ness and the genesis of the ordinary conception of time 420 472
82. A comparison of the existential-ontological connection of temporality, Dasein, and worldtime, with Hegel's way of taking the relation between time and spirit 428 480
(a) Hegel's conception of time 428 480
(b) Hegel's Interpretation of the connection between time and spirit 433 484
83. The existential-temporal analytic of Dasein, and the question of fundamental ontology as to the meaning of Being in general 436 486




















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