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giovanni_pn's review against another edition
challenging
informative
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
opson's review against another edition
How to rate and review of a book that is notoriously difficult to understand?
However, complementing this with YouTube videos, I got a better grasp about his concepts, such as dasein, throwness, and authenticity.
Why couldn't Heidegger just adopt the more easily understandable formula content creators have taken to get his message across? Stupid stereotypical philosopher.
Together with complementary videos, it’s a rewarding read. It has changed how I conceptualize the phenomenology of being (what he calls being-in-the-world, or dasein).
Literally can’t decide what to rate it at, or if I recommend it though.
However, complementing this with YouTube videos, I got a better grasp about his concepts, such as dasein, throwness, and authenticity.
Why couldn't Heidegger just adopt the more easily understandable formula content creators have taken to get his message across? Stupid stereotypical philosopher.
Together with complementary videos, it’s a rewarding read. It has changed how I conceptualize the phenomenology of being (what he calls being-in-the-world, or dasein).
Literally can’t decide what to rate it at, or if I recommend it though.
casparb's review against another edition
If I was being sensible, I think I would have chewed through more Kant than I have. That is not what happened. Being and Time has a bit of a reputation going about for difficulty, but I found Heidegger much more lucid than what Hegel can be at times, or Deleuze in Difference & Repetition. Heidegger is very careful to lead the reader through the book, even being so kind as to summarise each chapter at its end. That said, the untranslated Greek we see here and there was an interesting difficulty.
As with Hegel, the reader in translation must adopt a kind of German-consciousness as to the language (Hegel is different to Heidegger in this regard). Basically, Heidegger is relentlessly agglutinative. I'm sure this reads wonderfully in the original, but it is all rather peculiar when we are to contend with concepts such as 'ahead-of-itself-Being-already-in-(the-world)'. That's not really a complaint so much as a curiosity.
Big love for the Being-towards-death discussion. Thanks to Derrida for the prelim on that. Also the fear/anxiety distinction was really interesting - one can find something essay-worthy every couple of sentences. Such is the text.
So I was surprised by how well this went. It's an extraordinarily rich text, so there is ever more to glean, but I think this was a success, so far as initial reads go. I came to this for WSG and Derrida but Heidegger himself has thoroughly impressed me - so I'll be reading more of him at some point.
As with Hegel, the reader in translation must adopt a kind of German-consciousness as to the language (Hegel is different to Heidegger in this regard). Basically, Heidegger is relentlessly agglutinative. I'm sure this reads wonderfully in the original, but it is all rather peculiar when we are to contend with concepts such as 'ahead-of-itself-Being-already-in-(the-world)'. That's not really a complaint so much as a curiosity.
Big love for the Being-towards-death discussion. Thanks to Derrida for the prelim on that. Also the fear/anxiety distinction was really interesting - one can find something essay-worthy every couple of sentences. Such is the text.
So I was surprised by how well this went. It's an extraordinarily rich text, so there is ever more to glean, but I think this was a success, so far as initial reads go. I came to this for WSG and Derrida but Heidegger himself has thoroughly impressed me - so I'll be reading more of him at some point.
i_have_no_process's review against another edition
challenging
informative
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
As dense as ontology comes.
rksutt's review against another edition
It would be a bit absurd and arrogant to offer a star rating to a foundational work of 20th century philosophy, so let me say simply, that though Being and Time is difficult, it is profoundly rewarding. One need not understand and agree with everything Heidegger is saying, but to read and think with Heidegger through this work is a task well worth it for anyone with enough of a philosophical education to do the work. I highly recommend listening to the Apply-Degger podcast with Simon Critchley along with your reading of this book.