Being and Time By: Martin Heidegger

Author: Martin Heidegger
Narrated by: Martyn Swain, Taylor Carman

In his lucid introduction to this recording, Professor Taylor Carman declares unequivocally that Being and Time by Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is ‘one of the great masterpieces of 20th century philosophy.’ And that is despite the fact that it is unquestionably a challenging listen. But by placing it in its historical context – the key work on existentialism between Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) – it becomes much easier to approach. 

As Professor Carman explains, ‘Being and Time addresses a seemingly simple question: What does it mean to be?’ As far as we know, human beings are the only existing things ‘with an understanding of what it is for something to exist’ and, furthermore, are aware of their own existence. Heidegger chose the German word Dasein – existence: literally ‘being there’ – instead of more common expressions such as man, human being, soul, consciousness, etc. And he embarks upon his investigation, considering ‘being there in-the-world, in time (past, present, future); discussing ‘authentic’ and ‘inauthentic’ living and dying; and the acceptance of impermanence. ‘Dasein’s existence is pervaded by a primordial kind of anxiety (Angst)’, Carman remarks, but points out that the concept of care is central to Heidegger’s view: ‘to be a human being is to care about something’. 

Being and Time was published in 1927 during the Weimar period in Germany, a time of political, social and economic turmoil. Heidegger himself did not escape the pressures, and his nationalism and undeniable anti-Semitism in the following decades cast a shadow over the man, but not the work. Being and Time is not coloured by expressions of his later views (unlike other writings) and remains an outstanding document. 

This recording opens with Professor Carman reading his introduction. Being and Time is read by Martyn Swain. 

Translation: John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. 

The contents – showing the plan of the work – and the full text of the introduction are available on a PDF for download with this recording.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. 

6.6M	00. Introduction by Taylor Carman.mp3
4.5M	01. The necessity for explicitly restating the question of Being.mp3
5.6M	02. The formal structure of the question of Being.mp3
4.5M	03. The ontological priority of the question of Being.mp3
5.2M	04. The ontical priority of the question of Being.mp3
6.8M	05. The ontological analytic of Dasein as laying bare the horizon.mp3
11M	06. The task of Destroying the history of ontology.mp3
19M	07. The phenomenological method of investigation.mp3
1.2M	08. Design of the treatise.mp3
6.6M	09. The theme of the analytic of Dasein.mp3
6.6M	10. How the analytic of Dasein is to be distinguished from anthropology.mp3
2.4M	11. The existential analytic and the Interpretation of primitive Dasein.mp3
12M	12. A preliminary sketch of Being-in-the-world, in terms of an orientation.mp3
5.0M	13. A founded mode in which Being-in is exemplified. Knowing the world.mp3
5.9M	14. The idea of the worldhood of the world in general.mp3
8.9M	15. The Being of the entities encountered in the environment.mp3
6.8M	16. How the worldly character of the environment announces itself in entities.mp3
9.8M	17. Reference and signs.mp3
11M	18. Involvement and significance the worldhood of the world.mp3
3.5M	19. The definition of the 'world' as res extensa.mp3
4.2M	20. Foundations of the ontological definition of the 'world'.mp3
11M	21. Hermeneutical discussion of the Cartesian ontology of the 'world'.mp3
4.2M	22. The spatiality of the ready-to-hand within-the-world.mp3
8.8M	23. The spatiality of Being-in-the-world.mp3
5.0M	24. Space, and Dasein's spatiality.mp3
5.8M	25. An approach to the existential question of the who of Dasein.mp3
14M	26. The Dasein-with of Others, and everyday Being-with.mp3
7.5M	27. Everyday Being-one's-Self and the they.mp3
5.3M	28. The task of a thematic analysis of Being-in.mp3
9.0M	29. Being-there as state-of-mind.mp3
4.0M	30. Fear as a mode of state-of-mind.mp3
8.8M	31. Being-there as understanding.mp3
9.1M	32. Understanding and interpretation.mp3
11M	33. Assertion as a derivative mode of interpretation.mp3
11M	34. Being-there and discourse. Language.mp3
4.8M	35. Idle talk.mp3
4.1M	36. Curiosity.mp3
3.4M	37· Ambiguity.mp3
7.6M	38. Falling and thrownness.mp3
5.5M	39. The question of the primordial totality of Dasein's structural whole.mp3
11M	40. The basic state-of-mind of anxiety as a distinctive way in which Dasein.mp3
8.9M	41. Dasein's Being as care.mp3
4.3M	42. Confirmation of the existential Interpretation of Dasein as care in terms.mp3
17M	43. Dasein, worldhood, and Reality.mp3
26M	44. Dasein, disclosedness, and truth.mp3
6.9M	45. The outcome of the preparatory fundamental analysis of Dasein, and the task.mp3
3.0M	46. The seeming impossibility of getting Dasein's Being-a-whole into our grasp.mp3
5.6M	47· The possibility of experiencing the death of Others, and the possibility of getting.mp3
7.6M	48. That which is still outstanding; the end; totality.mp3
4.1M	49. How the existential analysis of death is distinguished from other possible.mp3
4.4M	50. Preliminary sketch of the existential-ontological structure of death.mp3
4.2M	51. Being-towards-death and the everydayness of Dasein.mp3
7.1M	52. Everyday Being-towards-the-end, and the full existential conception of death.mp3
12M	53· Existential projection of an authentic Being-towards-death wards-death.mp3
4.2M	54. The problem of how an authentic existentiell possibility is attested.mp3
2.7M	55. The existential-ontological foundations of conscience.mp3
3.1M	56. The character of conscience as a call.mp3
8.2M	57. Conscience as the call of care.mp3
15M	58. Understanding the appeal, and guilt.mp3
9.2M	59. The existential Interpretation of the conscience, and the way conscience is ordinarily.mp3
9.9M	60. The existential structure of the authentic potentiality-for-Being which is attested.mp3
4.9M	61. A preliminary sketch of the methodological step from the definition of Dasein’s.mp3
8.7M	62. Anticipatory resoluteness as the way in which Dasein’s potentiality-for-Being-a-whole.mp3
9.1M	63. The hermeneutical situation at which we have arrived for Interpreting the meaning.mp3
8.6M	64. Care and selfhood.mp3
13M	65. Temporality as the ontological meaning of care.mp3
3.8M	66. Dasein’s temporality and the tasks arising therefrom of repeating the existential analysis.mp3
2.4M	67. The basic content of Dasein’s existential constitution, and a preliminary sketch of the..mp3
23M	68. The temporality of disclosedness in general.mp3
24M	69. The of Being-in-the-world and the problem of the transcendence of the world.mp3
4.7M	70. The temporality of the spatiality that is characteristic of Dasein.mp3
3.1M	71. The temporal meaning of Dasein’s everydayness.mp3
8.4M	72. Existential-ontological exposition of the problem of history.mp3
6.5M	73. The ordinary understanding of history, and Dasein’s historizing.mp3
7.6M	74. The basic constitution of historicality.mp3
7.1M	75. Dasein’s historicality, and world-history.mp3
8.1M	76. The existential source of historiology in Dasein’s historicality.mp3
8.8M	77. The connection of the foregoing exposition of the problem of historicality with the.mp3
3.3M	78. The incompleteness of the foregoing temporal analysis of Dasein.mp3
8.2M	79. Dasein’s temporality, and our concern with time.mp3
13M	80. The time with which we concern ourselves, and within-time-ness.mp3
11M	81. Within-time-ness and the genesis of the ordinary conception of time.mp3
9.2M	82. A comparison of the existential-ontological connection of temporality, Dasein.mp3
2.9M	83. The existential-temporal analytic of Dasein, and the question of fundamental ontology.mp3
112K	Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (Supplement).pdf
25M	Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (trans. by Joan Stambaugh).pdf
30M	Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (translated by Macquarrie & Robinson).pdf
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