A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1982“In Albert Hofstadter’s excellent translation, we can listen in as Heidegger clearly and patiently explains . . . the ontological difference.” —Hubert L. Dreyfus, Times Literary Supplement

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The Basic Problems of Phenomenology

For anyone who wants to see what the third division of S&Z was supposed to be about. This book contains what was projected to be division iii, where Heidegger was supposed to take a more in depth approach as far as the destruktion of Kantian existence as position, existence as substance as posited by medieval ontology, basic ways of being as dualism between res extensa and res cogitans, and the cupola, or that every being regardless of its being can be talked about in terms of "is." Then the book goes into an incredibly detailed and methodical exposition of Aristotle's time, and finally into Praesens as the ontological horizon of all presence. Basically, there is no "now" outside of me. I am the "now" or my "now," as in the "Da" of my Dasein. The "now" is nothing other than Dasein emphasizing something through enpresenting, or making-present. We, as Dasein, are a temporally existing intentionally structured point of view in the world, that cares, if I'm not mistaken. Heidegger will tell you that there is an ontological difference, and he'll define it for you in saying that it consists in distinguishing Being from beings, yet, he will not tell you (at least not in this book) what exactly the meaning of Being which has been forgotten is. He will, however, do his best to give you a sense of what he means. Hopefully that is enough.

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