Description

Martin Heidegger asks what it means to be human. He seeks to grasp our lives and the world around us. He looks at daily life and what we take for granted. He asks how we find ourselves in the world. He also asks how we live with others and know ourselves.

This work of philosophy uses a method called phenomenology. It studies what shows itself through what we experience. It seeks no hidden realm apart from what we see. It asks how things can hide parts of themselves. The method does not ask where we come from in the end. Nor does it ask where we are bound to go.

Heidegger studied with Edmund Husserl, then changed his teacher’s method. Wilhelm Dilthey and Søren Kierkegaard helped shape his focus on being. He first put out this work in 1927, though it was unfinished. It made up just one-third of the work he had planned.

Gabriel Liiceanu and Catalin Cioaba translated Sein und Zeit into Romanian. This edition belongs to a series devoted to Heidegger.