Sembera R. Rephrasing Heidegger: A Companion to 'Being and Time'

Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. 2008. 330 p. ISBN10: 0776606638; ISBN13: 978-0776606637.Richard Sembera introduces the reader to the essential features of Being and Time, Heidegger's main work in clear and unambiguous English. He dispels the nimbus of unintelligibility surrounding Heidegger's thought, a nimbus that Heidegger himself helped create and that has tended to confine serious Heidegger scholarship to closed circles. This is not a work about the "exisistentialist" Heidegger, the "Nazi" Heidegger, the "gnostic" Heidegger, or the "mystic" Heidegger. Nor is it a "diluted" Heidegger for beginners. Rephrasing Heidegger interprets the philosopher on his own terms, covering all the main aspects of Being and Time, and is particularly interesting for its detailed analysis of the structure and contents of this epoch-making philosophical work. Rephrasing Heidegger includes a unique glossary of technical terms which recur frequently throughout Being and Time whose translation is problematic or uncertain. It also includes a German-English lexicon which catalogues the translations of Heidegger’s terms in the most important English translations of Being and Time. This is the first detailed commentary in English by a Heidegger specialist trained at Heidegger's own university by the world-renowned Heidegger scholar Prof. F.-W. von Herrman, the editor of the most important volumes of Heidegger's collected works in German.AcknowledgementsThe Origins of PhenomenologyThe History of the Term "Phenomenology"
The "Crisis" of European Science
Husserl's Phenomenological Foundation
Heidegger's Hermeneutics of Facticity
The Vicissitudes of the Phenomenological MovementHermeneutic Phenomenology as Fundamental OntologyUnderstanding versus Perception
Why Ask the Question of Being? (§§ 1-4)
The Structure of the Book Being and Time (§§ 5,6,8)
Heidegger's Concept of Phenomenology (§ 7)
The Everyday World (§§ 9-27)
The Worldliness of the World
The One-self
The Indifferent Mode of Being-in (§§ 28-34): Sensibility, Understanding, and Talk
Sensibility
Understanding
Talk
The Inauthentic Mode of Being-in (§§ 35-38): Turmoil, Curiosity, and Crosstalk
Crosstalk
Curiosity
Ambiguity
Turmoil
Falling
Authentic Sensibility: Angst (§§ 39-40)
The Primeval Structure of Dasein as Concern (§§ 41-42)
Reality and Truth (§§ 43-44)
Concernr Truth, and Authenticity
Being, Entities, and DaseinThe Timing of TimelinessThe Problem of Completeness and Authenticity (§§ 45-46)
Authentic Understanding; Death (§§ 47-53)
Authentic Talk: The Call of Conscience (§§ 54-60)
The Structure of Authenticity as Decidedness (§§ 61-62)
Timeliness as the Sense of Concern (§§ 63-66)
The Future: Advent
Tlte Past: Continuance
Tlie Present: Encounter
The Ecstatic Structure of TimelinessAppendices
Glossary of Technical Terms
German-English Lexicon
Important Conceptual DivisionsEndnotes
Selective Bibliography
Index of Names