Being and Time by Martin Heidegger. Book Review

Being and Time by Martin Heidegger. Book Review by Naeem Khan.

 I highly recommend Being and Time by Martin Heidegger 

I have read it and it tells us the following mainly :

Being is time. That is, what it means for a human being to be is to exist temporally in the stretch between birth and death. Being is time and time is finite, it comes to an end with our death.

Heidegger believes that time finds its meaning in death, according to Michael Kelley. That is, time is understood only from a finite or mortal vantage. Dasein's fundamental characteristic and mode of "being-in-the-world" is temporal: Having been "thrown" into a world implies a "pastness" in its being.

Heidegger's main interest was ontology or the study of being. In his fundamental treatise, Being and Time, he attempted to access being (Sein) by means of phenomenological analysis of human existence (Dasein) in respect to its temporal and historical character.

This leads to individuality, not attachment to father's name for identity. Heidegger is essentially existentialist.

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