Heidegger, Being, and the World

• 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

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

• Handout for Week 1
• Presentation Notes for Week 1

Part One

Being and Time (1927)

Week 2. September 2, 2026: Being

Heidegger’s Introduction: The Question of Being, and Phenomenological Method

• Read Heidegger, Being and Time (1927) §§1-8 = MR pp. 21-64.

• Read Gilbert Ryle’s review of Heidegger’s Being and Time

Week 2 Materials

• Handout for Week 2
• Presentation Notes for Week 2
• Video of Week 2
• Audio of Week 2

Supplementary

Week 3. September 9, 2026: Dasein

Dasein.
Fundamental Ontology is the Regional Ontology (Existential Analysis) of Dasein.

• Read Heidegger, Being and Time (1927) §9, §§12-15 = MR pp. 65-71, 78-102.).

Week 3 Materials

• Handout for Week 3
• Presentation Notes for Week 3
• Video of Week 3
• Audio of Week 3

Supplementary

Week 4. September 16, 2026: Zuhandensein

Zuhandensein: Availability or Readiness-to-Hand

The World as an Equipmental Totality of Functional Affordances

• Read Heidegger, Being and Time (1927) §§16-18 = MR pp. 102-123

Week 4 Materials

• Handout for Week 4
• Presentation Notes for Week 4
• Video of Week 4
• Audio of Week 4

Supplementary

Week 5. September 23, 2026: Mitsein and das Man

The Social Dimension of Dasein

• Read Heidegger, Being and Time (1927) §§21-23, §§25-30 = MR pp. 125-135, 149-179

Week 5 Materials

• Handout for Week 5
• Presentation Notes for Week 5
• Video of Week 5
• Audio of Week 5

Supplementary

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

• Handout for Week 6
• Presentation Notes for Week 6
• Video of Week 6
• Audio of Week 6

Supplementary

Week 7. October 7, 2026: Falling

Falling

• Read Heidegger, Being and Time (1927) §§35-38 = MR pp. 210-224

Week 7 Materials

• Handout for Week 7
• Presentation Notes for Week 7
• Video of Week 7
• Audio of Week 7

Supplementary

Week 8. October 14, 2026: Care as the Being of Dasein I

Care as the Being of Dasein I

• Read Heidegger, Being and Time (1927) §§39-42 = MR pp. 225-244

Week 8 Materials

• Handout for Week 8
• Presentation Notes for Week 8
• Video of Week 8
• Audio of Week 8

Supplementary

Week 9. October 21, 2026: Care as the Being of Dasein II

Care as the Being of Dasein II

• Read Heidegger, Being and Time (1927) §§43-44 = MR pp. 245-273

Week 9 Material

• Handout for Week 9
• Presentation Notes for Week 9
• Video of Week 9
• Audio of Week 9

Supplementary

Week 10. October 28, 2026 Division Two of Being and Time

Division Two of Being and Time

• Read Heidegger, Being and Time (1927) §45, §60, §65, §§67-69, §72, §74

Week 10 Materials

• Handout for Week 10
• Presentation Notes for Week 10
• Video of Week 10
• Audio of Week 10

Supplementary

Part Two

Post-Kehre and Late Work