A Commentary on Heideggers Being and Time

 

A Commentary on Heideggers Being and Time
A Commentary on Heideggers Being and Time
by Authors: Michael Gelven
Released: September, 1989
ISBN: 0875805442
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A Commentary on Heideggers Being and Time > Customer Review #1:
Make time for this one!

If youre workin through BandT then you know you need help: where to turn. Depends, if you want themes laid individually, but not always making the big picture cohere and with further goals in mind (refuting certain analytic thoughts) Dreyfus is a must and probably necessary for any advanced philosophy student (if you dont want Heidegger to ultimately smell of spinach completely). If you want a Brit spin written pretty orderly but often focusing on specifics that show where the research interests of the author are, then Mulhall is a must. If you want someone without any axes to grind elsewhere, well laid-out and often willing to go back and reconsider earlier important areas in light of new important ones, then Gelven is your guy. Very level-headed and shows a sincere interest in BandT. Im still leary of all things Heideggerian, but enjoy a good toil and Gelven allowed me that.

A Commentary on Heideggers Being and Time > Customer Review #2:
A useful complement to ¡®Being and Time¡¯

As the subtitle, ¡®A section-by-section interpretation¡¯, implies, this book is a section-by-section exegesis on Heidegger¡¯s ¡®Being and Time¡¯. So you should not expect an abridged reproducing Heidegger¡¯s book, though each section¡¯s content is closely recaptured. This book is not intended to replace original text. If you don¡¯t read Heidegger¡¯s text, I think don¡¯t think you can get much with this book. This kind of book is needed when the text of philosopher is so inexplicable that it takes even several years to decipher line by line. German masters of philosophy, like Kant, Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger, are notorious for their enigmatic writing style. That kind of style might be caused by the nature of the subject they deal with: they proposed not what the readers were accustomed to but what the author himself had not known the words to express their thought. So their books are littered with neologisms and mysterious expressions. Thus it¡¯s no wonder that there has been a plethora of exegesis on their works like this book.
Once you pick a work to read through, it would take time to reach the last page. So you could not remember what the author said in previous part, when you read other part. Then you have to read back previous part to understand the next part. But that previous part would ask you to remember the content of the other earlier part. Then you cannot but trace back to that part. It must end in endless circular flipping. But in that way, it must take a few years to read a work once at all! In that case, this kind of book is matchlessly helpful.
Another use of this kind of book is that you can peep into the summary of each section before you venture into that part. Yep, you can¡¯t capture real image with the brief summary. But it must be helpful and save your precious time. But for this kind of usage, I recommend to read another book at the same time: Dreyfus¡¯ ¡®Being-in-the-world¡¯. It has more depth than this book, though it does not cover whole line of the text; only Division I of ¡®Being and Time¡¯. And if you are seriously to delve into ¡®Being and Time¡¯, I recommend to read Kisiel¡¯s ¡®The Genesis of Heidegger¡¯s Being and Time¡¯. As the title implies, this book covers Heidegger¡¯s manuscripts written before publishing ¡®Being and Time¡¯.

A Commentary on Heideggers Being and Time > Customer Review #3:
An indispensible guide to Heideggers work

I dont think I could have ventured too far into Being and Time or the rest of Heideggers philosophy if not for having read this book. Gelven makes very clear and accessible, but without watering down, all of the major concepts, terms and ideas brought out in Being and Time, a book which can be extremely intimidating and confusing, especially in translation. This is perhaps the best work on explaining the project of Heideggers philosophy. If you just want to read one book by Heidegger or wish to gain an understaning of Heideggers philosophy, dont read a book by Heidegger, read this book instead. Gelvens text is a great starting point and handy reference. Id highly recommend bringing this book to any class in which one is trying to teach or learn Heidegger.

 
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