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Being and Time

Sein und Zeit

Martin Heidegger·1927·German

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Heidegger's unfinished project: a new account of the question of Being, approached through an analysis of Dasein, the human being who is not a thing in the world but an existence that always already has a world. Anxiety, care, being-toward-death, and authentic existence are its central stations. Dense, original, and enormously influential.

Dasein always understands itself in terms of its existence — in terms of a possibility of itself: to be itself or not itself. Dasein has either chosen these possibilities itself, or got itself into them, or grown up in them already. Existence is decided only by the particular Dasein itself in the manner of seizing upon or neglecting such possibilities.

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