PLEASE NOTE this is a sample reading list for the 2015-16 academic year – precise seminar content
may change from year to year.
READING
Lectures will focus on a sustained reading of Heidegger’s most famous work, Being and Time
[1927] (Oxford: Blackwell, 1962). Seminars will consist of an in-depth discussion of the passages
introduced in the lectures.
SECONDARY LITERATURE:
General Introductions:
de Beistegui, Miguel. The New Heidegger. London: Continuum, 2005
---------------. Thinking with Heidegger. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003.
Biemel, Walter. Martin Heidegger. An Illustrated Study. Translated by J. L. Mehta. London:
Routldege, 1977.
Davis, Bret W. Davis. Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts. Durham: Acumen, 2010.
Pöggeler, Otto. Der Denkweg Martin Heideggers (1967). Translated by Daniel Magurshak and
Sigmund Barber as Heidegger's Path of Thinking. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1987.
Polt, Richard. Heidegger: an Introduction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.
Richardson, William. Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1962.
2. Collection of Essays:
Sheehan, Thomas, ed. Heidegger: The Man and the Thinker. Chicago: Precedent, 1981.
Haar, Michel, ed. Heidegger. Paris: Les cahiers de l'Herne, 1983.
Sallis, John, ed. Reading Heidegger. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Kisiel, Theodore and van Buren, John (eds.): Reading Heidegger from the Start - Essays in his
Earliest Thought. Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.
Macann, Christopher, ed. Critical Heidegger. London: Routledge, 1996.
Raffoul, François, and Pettigrew, David, eds. Heidegger and Practical Philosophy. Albany: SUNY
Press, 2002.
Monographs:
Schürmann, Reiner. Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy. Translated by
Christine-Marie Gros. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Haar, Michel. Heidegger and the Essence of Man. Translated by Will McNeill. Albany: SUNY Press,
1993.
Krell, David Farrell. Intimations of Mortality. Time, Truth and Finitude in Heidegger’s Thinking of
Being. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University, 1986.
Petzet, Heinrich Wiegand. Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976. Trans.
Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993
Safranski, Rüdiger. Martin Heidegger. Between Good and Evil. Translated by Ewald Osers.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
4. On Being and Time:
Gelven, Michael. A Commentary on Heidegger's "Being and Time" A Section by Section
Interpretation. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989.
Dreyfus, Hubert L. Being-in-the-World. A Commentary on Heidegger's "Being and Time," Division
I. Cambridge Mass. & London: The MIT Press, 1991.
Kiesel, Theodore. The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time. Berkeley: California University
Press, 1993.
Mulhall, Stephen. Heidegger and Being and Time. London: Routledge, 1996.
Dastur, Françoise. Heidegger and the Question of Time. Translated by François Raffoul and David
Pettigrew. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1998.
Carman, Taylor. Heidegger's Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse, and Authenticity. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Dreyfus, Hubert L., and Wrathall, Mark A. (editors). A Companion to Heidegger. Oxford: Blackwell,
2005.
Part I: Early Heidegger: Themes and Influences. Part II: Being and Time.
Polt, Richard (editor). Heidegger’s Being and Time. Critical Essays. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman
and Littlefield, 2005.
Blattner, W. D. Heidegger's "Being and Time." London: Continuum, 2006.
Gorner, Paul. Heidegger’s Being and Time: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2007.
Critchley, Simon, and Schürmann, Reiner. On Heidegger’s Being and Time. London: Routledge,
2008.
5. Web Sources:
“Ereignis” (www.beyng.com): an extremely useful, exhaustive and up to date website, with many
links to other sites, articles and books.
PROGRAMME OF LECTURES AND SEMINARS:
Week 1
Lecture: Heidegger’s Path Towards Being and Time Being and Time
Week 2
Seminar: M. Heidegger, “My Way to Phenomenology” + Being and Time, Introduction, Part One
Recommended reading: R. Schürmann, On Heidegger's Being and Time, Chapter 2; P. Gorner,
Heidegger's Being and Time, Chapter 2; R. Polt, Heidegger: An Introduction, 23-43; M. Gelven,
Heidegger's Being and Time, Chapter 2.
Lecture: Heidegger’s Path Towards Being and Time (cont.)
Week 3
Seminar: Being and Time, Introduction, Part Two
Recommended reading: same as week 2.
Lecture: Being and Time, Part One, Division One, Chapters I and II
Week 4
Seminar: Being and Time, Part One, Division One, Chapters I and II
Recommended reading: Gelven, 47-61; Polt, 43-49.
Lecture: Being and Time, Part One, Division One, Chapter III
Week 5
Seminar: Being and Time, Part One, Division One, Chapter III
Recommended reading: Gorner, Chapter 3; Polt, 49-60; Gelven, 61-68; Beistegui, 62-68.
Lecture: Being and Time, Part One, Division One, Chapters IV and V
Week 7
Seminar: Being and Time, Part One, Division One, Chapters IV and V
Recommended reading: Gelven, 68-110; Polt, 6-76; Gorner, Chapters 4 and 5.
Lecture: Being and Time, Part One, Division One, Chapter VI
Week 8
Seminar: Being and Time, Part One, Division One, Chapter VI
Recommended reading: Gorner, Chapter 6; Polt, 76-85; Gelven, Chapter 5; Beistegui, 34-43.
Lecture: Being and Time, Part One, Division Two, Chapter I
Week 9
Seminar: Being and Time, Part One, Division Two, Chapter I
Recommended reading: Gelven, Chapter 6.
Lecture: Being and Time, Part One, Division Two, Chapter II
Week 10
Seminar: Being and Time, Part One, Division Two, Chapter II
Recommended reading: Gorner, Chapter 7; Gelven, Chapter 7; Cricthley, Chapter 3; Beistegui,
43-50.
Lecture: Being and Time, Part One, Division Two, Chapter III
Recommended reading: Polt, Chapter 4; Gorner, Chapter 8; Gelven, 169-185; Beistegui, 68-79.