Heidegger: Being and Time (Week 14)

In Being and Time, Heidegger aims to reawaken our sense for the question, 'What does it mean to be?'. We can be said to have forgotten what this question asks, not because it isn't important, but because the language we might use to talk about this question papers over what we wanted to address. It is the question—not the answer—which is sought after here.

But because the question, 'What does it mean to be?', is inherently intertwined with the concerns and affairs of she who raises it, Heidegger turns to analyze what it is like for us to be there, or to concern ourselves with what it means to be. Being and Time thus considers what it is like for things to matter to us every day, the ways in which meaningfulness can utterly collapse or fail, and just how difficult it is for us to understand and commit ourselves in a way that is our own.

Whether you're new to discussing philosophical texts or can paraphrase Heidegger's later work, we'd be happy to have you join in the new year!

Join us every other Thursday at 6!

**Reading schedule:

1. Introduction I: §§1–4
2. Introduction II: §§5–8
3. Part 1, Division 1, I–II: §§9–13
4. III: §§14–18 (stop at B)
5. III: §§18B–24
6. IV: §§25–27
7. V: §§28–33
8. V: §§34–38
9. VI: §§39–42
10. VI: §§42–44
11. Part 1, Division 2, I: §§45–53
12. II: §§54–60
13. III: §§61–66
14. IV: §§67–68
15. IV: §§69–71
16. V: §§72–77
17. VI: §§78–83

Purchase the John Macquarie and Edward Robinson translation or the revised translation by Joan Stambaugh.