Sein und Zeit
by Martin Heidegger · first published 1927
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What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism -- as well as existentialism and much of postmodern though.
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Heidegger: Sein und Zeit https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21477742-martin-heidegge... (translation: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92307.Being_and_Time ). Great philosophy, and, alas, nazi author. But you can't choose…
on “Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about the world?” ↗…in some of them specific people because we do not speak demotic. Not everyone is a layman. Celebrating a "man sagt" is utterly absurd, and Heidegger wrote about it. I suggest you (re)read the pages in Sein und Zeit about Gerede, Neugier und Zweideutigkeit (§35, §36, §37).
on “In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace” ↗…of Being and Time is really good. I disagree (I've never tried reading him in translation). His German coinage and turgid sentences are legendary. I had one particularly obscurantist sentence from Sein und Zeit on my whiteboard for over a year and it was always a source of discussion, both jocular and serious, when someone came into my office.
on “The Hermeneutical Imperative” ↗…none of these questions are primary questions, they are questions that you can only concern yourself with after you have understood the conditions and structures of your own Sein. There is a good reason Sein und Zeit is a fragment, an aborted solution for the problem of ontology. Heidegger himself notices that his line of enquiry does not solve the overall problem of ontology, despite his optimistic start. Perhaps…
on “How To Deconstruct Almost Anything (1993)” ↗…against postmodernism for a moment, as well. I think the prototypical example of dense prose in continental philosophy would be Heidegger, but at the same time I don't think that people would say that Sein und Zeit is gibberish. Now, many analytic philosophers (including myself) would probably agree that Sein und Zeit probably falls to the same psychoanalytic-assumption-as-truth that is categorical of existentialism…
on “Postmodernism Disrobed by Richard Dawkins” ↗…it hinder the goal? In this way, you can avoid wasting time and effort. I found good stuff in Heidegger, but I don't think it's worth your time to grind through it. Just look up the Cliff's Notes for 'Sein und Zeit.' So what did I get out of all that? -I started to question what it was I really wanted to get out of life. -I decided I wanted more independence and liberty. -I decided I didn't like the direction…
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life?” ↗Heidegger's term i think, based on the english translation of "being and time" (Sein und Zeit), our state of having found ourselves like this.
…the distance of language - translation is almost inevitably going to blur the original lines of the original (I've heard it said, not of Kant but of Heidegger, that it's easier to learn German and read Sein und Zeit than it is to read Being and Time). And to make matters worse, Kant has always been criticized as a notoriously poor writer, even by his contemporaries. (And there's the underlying complexity of his…
on “Immanuel Kant–What can we know?” ↗No need to go to Heidegger's Sein und Zeit, once required reading in many a school where I'm from; the logical conclusion and application of polysemy [1], amongst other things, should get the ball rolling just as well. 1. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysemy]
on “Programming is Art” ↗