"Being and Time changed the course of philosophy." --Richard Rorty,
New York Times Book Review
"Heidegger's masterwork." --The Economist
"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. This first
paperback edition of John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson's definitive
translation also features a foreword by Heidegger scholar Taylor
Carman.
A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and
criticism--as well as existentialism and much of postmodern
thought--Being and Time forever changed the intellectual map of the
modern world. As Richard Rorty wrote in the New York Times Book
Review, "You cannot read most of the important thinkers of recent times
without taking Heidegger's thought into account."