Translators' Preface

Author's Preface to the Seventh German Edition

Introduction Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being

The Necessity, Structure, and Priority of the Question of Being

The necessity for explicitly restating the question of Being

The formal structure of the question of Being

The ontological priority of the question of Being

The ontical priority of the question of Being

The Twofold Task in Working Out the Question of Being. Method and Design of Our Investigation

The ontological analytic of Dasein as laying bare the horizon for an Interpretation of the meaning of Being in general

The task of Destroying the history of ontology

The phenomenological method of investigation

The concept of phenomenon

The concept of the logos

The preliminary conception of phenomenology

Design of the treatise

Part One he Interpretation of Dasein in Terms of Temporality, and the Explication of Time as the Transcendental Horizon for the Question of Being

DIVISION ONE: PREPARATORY FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS OF DASEIN

Exposition of the Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Dasein

The theme of the analytic of Dasein

How the analytic of Dasein is to be distinguished from anthropology, psychology, and biology

The existential analytic and the Interpretation of primitive Dasein. The difficulties of achieving a `natural conception of the World'

Being-in-the-World in General as the basic State of Dasein

A preliminary sketch of Being-in-the-world, in terms of an orientation towards Being-in as such

A founded mode in which Being-in is exemplified. Knowing the world

The Worldhood of the World

The idea of the worldhood of the world in general

Analysis of environmentality and worldhood in general

The Being of the entities encountered in the environment

How the worldly character of the environment announces itself in entities within-the-world

Reference and signs

Involvement and significance: the worldhood of the world

A contrast between our analysis of worldhood and Descartes' Interpretation of the world

The definition of the `world' as res extensa

Foundations of the ontological definition of the `world'

Hermeneutical discussion of the Cartesian ontology of the `world'

The aroundness of the environment, and Dasein's spatiality

The spatiality of the ready-to-hand within-the-world

The spatiality of Being-in-the-world

Space, and Dasein's spatiality

Being-in-the-World as Being-with and Being-One's-Self. The `They'

An approach to the existential question of the ``who'' of Dasein

The Dasein-with of Others, and everyday Being-with

Everyday Being-one's-Self and the ``they''

Being-in as Such

The task of a thematic analysis of Being-in

The existential Constitution of the ``there''

Being-there as state-of-mind

Fear as a mode of state-of-mind

Being-there as understanding

Understanding and interpretation

Assertion as a derivative mode of interpretation

Being-there and discourse. Language

The everyday Being of the ``there'', and the falling of Dasein

Idle talk

Curiosity

Ambiguity

Falling and thrownness

Care as the Being of Dasein

The question of the primordial totality of Dasein's structural whole

The basic state-of-mind of anxiety as a distinctive way in which Dasein is disclosed

Dasein's Being as care

Confirmation of the existential Interpretation of Dasein as care in terms of Dasein's pre-ontological way of interpreting itself

Dasein, worldhood, and Reality

Reality as a problem of Being, and whether the `external world' can be proved

Reality as an ontological problem

Reality and care

Dasein, disclosedness, and truth

The traditional conception of truth, and its ontological foundations

The primordial phenomenon of truth and the derivative character of the traditional conception of truth

The kind of Being which truth possesses, and the presupposition of truth

DIVISION TWO: DASEIN AND TEMPORALITY

The outcome of the preparatory fundamental analysis of Dasein, and the task of a primordial existential Interpretation of this entity

Dasein's Possibility of Being-a-whole, and Being-towards-death

The seeming impossibility of getting Dasein's Being-a-whole into our grasp ontologically and determining its character H. 235

The possibility of experiencing the death of Others, and the possibility of getting a whole Dasein into our grasp

That which is still outstanding; the end; totality

How the existential analysis of death is distinguished from other possible Interpretations of this phenomenon

Preliminary sketch of the existential-ontological structure of death

Being-towards-death and the everydayness of Dasein

Everyday being-towards-the-end, and the full existential conception of death

Existential projection of an authentic Being-to-wards-death

Dasein's Attestation of an Authentic Potentiality-for-being, and Resoluteness

The problem of how an authentic existentiell possibility is attested

The existential-ontological foundations of conscience

The character of conscience as a call

Conscience as the call of care

Understanding the appeal, and guilt

The existential Interpretation of the conscience, and the way conscience is ordinarily interpreted

The existential structure of the authentic potentiality-for-Being which is attested in the conscience

Dasein's Authentic Potentlality-for-being-a-whole, and Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care

A preliminary sketch of the methodological step from the definitio of Dasein's authentic Being-a-whole to the laying-bare of temporality as a phenomenon

Anticipatory resoluteness as the way in which Dasein's potentiality-for-Being-a-whole has existentiell authenticity

The hermeneutical situation at which we have arrived for Interpreting the meaning of the Being of care; and the methodological character of the existential analytic in general

Care and selfhood

Temporality as the ontological meaning of care

Dasein's temporality and the tasks arising there-from of repeating the existential analysis in a more primordial manner

Temporality and Everydayness

The basic content of Dasein's existential constitution, and a preliminary sketch of the temporal Interpretation of it

The temporality of disclosedness in general

The temporality of understanding

The temporality of state-of-mind

The temporality of falling

The temporality of discourse

The temporality of Being-in-the-world and the problem of the transcendence of the world

The temporality of circumspective concern

The temporal meaning of the way in which circumspective concern becomes modified into the theoretical discovery of the present-at-hand within-the-world

The temporal problem of the transcendence of the world

The temporality of the spatiality that is characteristic of Dasein

The temporal meaning of Dasein's everydayness

Temporality and Historicality

Existential-ontological exposition of the problem of history

The ordinary understanding of history, and Dasein's historizing

The basic constitution of historicality

Dasein's historicality, and world-history

The existential source of historiology in Dasein's historicality

The connection of the foregoing exposition of the problem of historicality with the researches of Wilhelm Dilthey and the ideas of Count Yorck

Temporality and Within-time-ness as the source of the ordinary conception of time

The incompleteness of the foregoing temporal analysis of Dasein

Dasein's temporality, and our concern with time

The time with which we concern ourselves, and within-time-ness

Within-time-ness and the genesis of the ordinary conception of time

A comparison of the existential-ontological connection of temporality, Dasein, and world-time, with Hegel's way of taking the relation between time and spirit

Hegel's conception of time

Hegel's Interpretation of the connection between time and spirit

The existential-temporal analytic of Dasein, and the question of fundamental ontology as to the meaning of Being in general

Author's Notes

Glossary of German Terms

Index