Being and Time

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