clayton_sanborn's review against another edition
4.0
The fact that I've had to read B&T twice over the course of a year is a hate crime
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.
kassiejo's review against another edition
4.0
If you can get through any amount of Heidegger, you're a champion.
mishelj's review against another edition
heidegger invented the genre of secular self-help books and i was both annoyed and enthralled