Being-in-the-World is a guide to one of the most influential
philosophical works of this century: Division I of Part One of
Being and Time, where Martin Heidegger works out an original and
powerful account of being-in-the-world which he then uses to ground
a profound critique of traditional ontology and epistemology.
Hubert Dreyfus's commentary opens the way for a new appreciation of
this difficult philosopher, revealing a rigorous and illuminating
vocabulary that is indispensable for talking about the phenomenon
of world.The publication of Being and Time in 1927 turned the
academic world on its head. Since then it has become a touchstone
for philosophers as diverse as Marcuse, Sartre, Foucault, and
Derrida who seek an alternative to the rationalist Cartesian
tradition of western philosophy. But Heidegger's text is
notoriously dense, and his language seems to consist of
unnecessarily barbaric neologisms; to the neophyte and even to
those schooled in Heidegger thought, the result is often
incomprehensible.Dreyfus's approach to this daunting book is
straightforward and pragmatic. He explains the text by frequent
examples drawn from everyday life, and he skillfully relates
Heidegger's ideas to the questions about being and mind that have
preoccupied a generation of cognitive scientists and philosophers
of mind.Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of California, Berkeley.
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