Being and Time

"Being and Time changed the course of philosophy." --Richard Rorty, New York Times Book Review

This first paperback edition of John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson's definitive translation also features a new foreword by Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman.

What is the meaning of being? This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism--as well as existentialism and much of postmodern thought--Being and Time forever changed the intellectual map of the modern world. As Richard Rorty wrote in the New York Times Book Review, You cannot read most of the important thinkers of recent times without taking Heidegger's thought into account.

"Heidegger's masterwork." --The Economist

"Heidegger's greatest work." --The Guardian

Author: Martin Heidegger
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 07/22/2008
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780061575594

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 4