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"'A patient account and robust defence of Heidegger's critique of the ontological presuppositions of Cartesianism and the traditional 'problems' of scepticism and solipsism...Mulhall's text is an impressive feat of exegesis. It will be seized upon by those facing the daunting prospect of reading Being and Time for the first time.'
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-Jim Urpeth, Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology.
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-Jim Urpeth, Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology.
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Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings are notoriously difficult; they both require and reward careful reading. Being and Time, his first major publication, remains to this day his most influential work.
Heidegger and Being and Time introduces and assesses:
* Heidegger’s life and the background to Being and Time
* the ideas and text of Being and Time
* Heidegger’s continuing importance to philosophy and his contribution to the intellectual life of our century.
In this second edition, Stephen Mulhall expands his treatment of scepticism, revises his discussion on death, and reassesses the contentious relationship between the two parts of Being and Time with a focus on the notion of authenticity.
This guide will be vital to all students of Heidegger in philosophy and cultural theory.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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Heidegger's 'Being & Time' is central to his thought, and one of the most important works of philosophy written this centuary, if not ever. It is also terribly written, and utterly impenetrable without some help or A Lot of patience. This book, although inevitably skipping a lot of the detail and being slightly misleading in parts, does a good job of explaining the general gist of Heidegger's project and showing why it is vital today. I can honestly recommend this as life changing if you've never come across it before, but there are guidebooks out there which go into a lot more detail with greater accuracy. A good start on the road to understanding Heidegger.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This is an excellent introduction to Heidegger. It does not assume a degree in philosophy at the same time as it does attempt to over-simplify the complexities of Heideeger's thinking. Made me glad I was exploring Being and Time, Heidegger's most famous work
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Mulhall's ability for making what could be said straightforwardly into something obscure and complex sounding cannot be doubted.By the first 10 pages of this book I decided that reading it was going to be like a good wade through treacle-I wasn't wrong,Mulhalls sentences are terse to the point of being tortuous.Mulhall is pays no respect to the rule of one idea to each sentence.Instead we have sentences that are often conceptually overloaded and difficult to understand.Mulhall writes in an overly abstract manner, hardly using concrete examples to illustrate his point.
I was able to get through the book because of previous reading of texts on 'Being and Time' like Gelven's commentary and Dreyfus's 'Being in the World'.At the end of the ordeal of reading this book I can't say I have a better of a sense of 'Being and Time' than if I had repeated a less convuleted text such as Michael Gelven's.
I wouldn't recommend this book to a Heidegger newbe (or to anyone else unless for that matter).On the back of the book it says 'Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks painlessy introduces students to classic works of philosophy'-I think the series editor must have been having a laugh when he wrote this-at the expense of his his readers and at the reputation of Routledge for publishing books of quality and clarity.My feeling on completing the book was disgust.
I was able to get through the book because of previous reading of texts on 'Being and Time' like Gelven's commentary and Dreyfus's 'Being in the World'.At the end of the ordeal of reading this book I can't say I have a better of a sense of 'Being and Time' than if I had repeated a less convuleted text such as Michael Gelven's.
I wouldn't recommend this book to a Heidegger newbe (or to anyone else unless for that matter).On the back of the book it says 'Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks painlessy introduces students to classic works of philosophy'-I think the series editor must have been having a laugh when he wrote this-at the expense of his his readers and at the reputation of Routledge for publishing books of quality and clarity.My feeling on completing the book was disgust.
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