Being and TimeOne of the most important philosophical works of our time -- a work that has had tremendous influence on philosophy, literature, and psychology, and has literally changed the intellectual map of the modern world.
Occasionally a book is published which acts like a time bomb on the intellectual community. At first neglected, interest in it is gradually built up because of changes in opinion. ...Such a book is Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, originally published in 1927 by a gifted student of the prominent German philosopher, Edmund Husserl, and by a remarkable feat of translation, now available in English.
The influence, direct and indirect, of this book not only in philosophy but literature and psychology, has reached a point where its admirers characterize it as a work that has changed the intellectual map of the modern world...
It is safe to predict that now, more than ever, as life on earth becomes more precarious, Heidegger will become another way station in the restless pilgrimage of unhappy souls trying to find themselves...
That Heidegger is a suggestive writer is proved by the great stir he has already made. His influence in the Anglo-American world, in virtue of this magnificent translation, is almost certain to grow. --Sidney Hook
