Being and Time
<p><i><b>Being and Time</b></i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i>Sein und Zeit</i>) is a 1927 book by the German philosopher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger" title="Martin Heidegger">Martin Heidegger</a>, in which Heidegger seeks to analyse the concept of Being. This has fundamental importance for philosophy, he thought, because since the time of the Ancient Greeks, philosophy has avoided this question, turning instead to the analysis of particular beings. Heidegger seeks a more fundamental ontology through understanding being itself. He approaches this through seeking understanding of beings to whom the question of being is important, i.e. 'Dasein', or the human being in the abstract.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Time#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> Although written quickly, and though Heidegger did not complete the project outlined in the introduction, <i>Being and Time</i> remains his most important work.
<i>Being and Time</i> has profoundly influenced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th-century_philosophy" title="20th-century philosophy">20th-century philosophy</a>, particularly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism" title="Existentialism">existentialism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics" title="Hermeneutics">hermeneutics</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction" title="Deconstruction">deconstruction</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enactivism" title="Enactivism">enactivist</a> approach to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition" title="Cognition">cognition</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Time#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Time#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> The book is dedicated to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Husserl" title="Edmund Husserl">Edmund Husserl</a> "in friendship and admiration".</p>