THE QUESTION OF THE MEANING OF BEING

INTRODUCTION:
The Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being

 
Making Sense of Heidegger's 'Being & Time'

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

 
§1: The Necessity of an Explicit Retrieve of the Question of Being

§2: The Formal Structure of the Question of Being

§3: The Ontological Priority of the Question of Being

§4: The Ontic Priority of the Question of Being
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II. The Double Task in Working Out the Question of Being: The Method of the Investigation and its Outline

 
§5: The Ontological Analysis of Da-sein as the Exposure of the Horizon for an Interpretation of the Meaning of Being in General

§6: The Task of a Destructuring of the History of Ontology

§7: The Phenomenological Method of the Investigation

§8: The Outline of the Treatise
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PART ONE
The Interpretation of Da-sein in Terms of Temporality and the Explication of Time as the Transcendental Horizon of the Question of Being

DIVISION ONE: The Preparatory Fundamental Analysis of Da-sein

I. The Exposition of the Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Da-sein

 
§9: The Theme of the Analytic of Da-sein

§10: How the Analytic of Da-sein is to be Distinguished from Anthropology, Psychology, and Biology

§11: The Existential Analytic and the Interpretation of Primitive Da-sein:
The Difficulties in Securing a 'Natural Concept of the World'
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II. Being-in-the-World in General as the Fundamental Constitution of Da-sein

 
§12: A Preliminary Sketch of Being-in-the-World in Terms of the Orientation towards Being-in as Such

§13: The Exemplification of Being-in in a Founded Mode: Knowing the World
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III The Worldliness of the World

 
§14: The Idea of the Worldliness of the World in General

A. Analysis of Environmentality and Worldliness in General

§15: The Being of Beings Encountered in the Surrounding World

Digression: 'The World' or 'Why won't that ****! sign load properly?'

§16: The Worldly Character of the Surrounding World Making Itself Known in Innerworldy Beings
§17: References and Signs

§18: Relevance and Significance: The Worldliness of the World

B. Contrast between Our Analysis of Worldliness and Descartes' Interpretation of the World
 
Digression: Descartes' 'Meditations On First Philosophy In Which The Existence Of God And The Distinction Of The Soul From The Body Are Demonstrated'

§19: The Determination of the 'World' as Res Extensa

§20: The Fundaments of the Ontological Definition of the 'World'

§21: Hermeneutical Discussion of the Cartesian Ontology of the 'World'
 
C. The Aroundness of the Surrounding World and the Spatiality of Da-sein

§22: The Spatiality of Innerworldy Things at Hand

§23: The Spatiality of Being-in-the-World

§24: The Spatiality of Da-sein and Space
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IV Being-in-the-World as Being-with and Being a Self: The 'They'

 
§25: The Approach to the Existential Question of the Who of Da-sein

§26: The Mitda-sein of the Others and Everyday Being-with

§27: Everyday Being One's Self and the They
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V Being-in as Such

 
§28: The Task of a Thematic Analysis of Being-in

A. The Existential Constitution of the There

§29: Da-sein as Attunement

§30: Fear as a Mode of Attunement

§31: Da-sein as Understanding
§32: Understanding and Interpretation
§33: Statement as a Derivative Mode of Interpretation
§34: Da-sein and Discourse: Language
 
B. The Everyday Being of the There and the Falling Prey of Da-sein
§35: Idle Talk
§36: Curiosity
§37: Ambiguity
§38: Falling Prey and Thrownness
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VI Care as the Being of Da-sein

 
§39: The Question of the Primordial Totality of the Structural Whole of Da-sein

§40: The Fundamental Attunement of Angst as an Eminent Disclosedness of Da-sein

§41: The Being of Da-sein as Care

§42: Confirmation of the Existential Interpretation of Da-sein as Care in Terms of the Pre-ontological Self-interpretation of Da-sein
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