Heidegger, Being, and the World
Wednesdays at 1pm in 1008 B, Cathedral of Learning
So Much Being, So Little Time
Some Basic Resources
- Heidegger: Being and Time (English)
- Heidegger: Sein und Zeit (German)
- Hubert Dreyfus: Being-in-the-World
- John Haugeland (Joseph Rouse editor) Dasein Disclosed
- Haugeland’s Glossary for Being and Time
- William Blattner Heidegger’s Being and Time
- Blattner’s Glossary
- Mark Okrent Heidegger’s Pragmatism (1988)
- Brandom, “Heidegger’s Categories in Being and Time (1983)
- Catalogue of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe
Three Generations of Analytic Pragmatist Heideggerians:
Dreyfus, Haugeland, Blattner
Week 1. August 26, 2026: Introduction
The Ontological Difference.
Heidegger’s Tripartite Ontology: Dasein, Vorhandensein, Zuhandensein
The Contours of Heidegger’s Corpus
Week 1 Materials
Supplementary
Part One
Being and Time (1927)
Week 2. September 2, 2026: Being
Heidegger’s Introduction: The Question of Being, and Phenomenological Method
Week 2 Materials
Supplementary
- Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World, Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 10-39.
- Haugeland, Dasein Disclosed, Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 51-75.
- Brandom, A Spirit of Trust, Chapter 12, pp. 422-442, on phenomena/noumena and sense/reference in Hegel
- Brandom, Between Saying and Doing, Chapter 1 and Appendix to Chapter 2 (on indexicals)
Week 3. September 9, 2026: Dasein
Dasein.
Fundamental Ontology is the Regional Ontology (Existential Analysis) of Dasein.
All 'isms' are 'wasms'.
Week 3 Materials
Supplementary
- Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World, Chapters 3, pp. 40-59.
- Haugeland, Dasein Disclosed, Chapter 3, pp. 76-90.
- Haugeland, “Dasein’s Disclosedness, pp. 17-39.
- Brandom, “Sortals, Identity, and Modality”, pp. 216-235 in From Empiricism to Expressivism.
Week 4. September 16, 2026: Zuhandensein
Zuhandensein: Availability or Readiness-to-Hand
The World as an Equipmental Totality of Functional Affordances
To the man who only has a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail.
Week 4 Materials
- Passages from Being and Time §§16-18
- Handout for Week 4
- Plan for Week 4
- Video of Week 4
- Audio of Week 4
Supplementary
- Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World, Chapters 4, pp. 60-87.
- Haugeland, Dasein Disclosed, Chapter 4, pp. 91-120.
- Brandom,“Some Strands of Wittgenstein’s Normative Pragmatism”
- Brandom,“Heidegger’s Categories in Being and Time”
Week 5. September 23, 2026: Mitsein, das Man, and Gerede
The Social Dimension: No Dasein without Mitsein
Week 5 Materials
Supplementary
- Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World, Chapters 5, pp. 88-107, Chapter 8, pp. 141-162.
- Haugeland, Dasein Disclosed, Chapters 6 and 7, pp. 121-151.
- Brandom, A Spirit of Trust, Chapter 9.
Week 6. September 30, 2026: Presence (Vorhandenheit)
Understanding and Language
- Read Heidegger, Being and Time (1927) §§31-34 = MR pp. 182-203
- Read Brandom, “Dasein, the Being that Thematizes” (2003).
Week 6 Materials
Supplementary
- Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World, Chapters 9-12, pp. 163-224.
- Haugeland, “Reading Brandom Reading Heidegger” (2005), pp. 157-166.
- Haugeland, “Letting Be” (2007), pp. 167-178.
Week 7. October 7, 2026: Falling
Falling
Week 7 Materials
Supplementary
Week 8. October 14, 2026: Care as the Being of Dasein I
Care as the Being of Dasein I
Week 8 Materials
Supplementary
Week 9. October 21, 2026: Care as the Being of Dasein II
Care as the Being of Dasein II
Week 9 Materials
Supplementary
Week 10. October 28, 2026 Division Two of Being and Time
Division Two of Being and Time
Week 10 Materials
Supplementary
- Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World, Appendix on Late Work, pp. 283-340.
- Haugeland, “Truth and Finitude: Heidegger’s Transcendental Existentialism” (2000), pp. 187-220.
- Haugeland, “Death and Dasein” (2007), pp. 179-186.
Part Two
Post-Kehre and Late Work
Week 11. November 4, 2026: Late Stuff I. The Beiträge
Heidegger’s Kehre
The unspeakable contemplating the unsayable.
Week 11 Materials
Supplementary
Week 12. November 11, 2026: Late Stuff II. The Fourfold (Das Geviert)
Das Geviert:
Earth and Sky,
Mortals and Divinities
Week 12 Materials
Supplementary
Week 13. November 18, 2026: Late Stuff III. Things in the World
Things in the World
Schwarzwald Redneck
Week 13 Materials
Some Further Famous Late Essays
- “The Origin of the Work of Art” (1935)
- “Letter on Humanism” (1947)
- “The Question Concerning Technology” (1953)
Week 14. December 2, 2026: Conclusion
Shepherding Being
Week 14 Materials
Supplementary
Some Further Resources
-Re Nazi Politics 1933-34:
- Heidegger’s Political Tracts 1933-34
- The Rektoratsrede (1933)
- Rorty, “Heidegger’s Nazism: An Alternative View”
- Der Spiegel Interview with Heidegger (1966)
- Günter Grass, Dog Years (1963) Excerpts
-Some early stuff we won’t discuss: