Being and Time word literally meaning "being-there," i.e., "existence"), and the method pursued in "Being and Time" consists in the attempt to delimit the characteristics of "Dasein", in order thereby to approach the meaning of Being itself through an interpretation of the temporality of Dasein. "Dasein" is not "man," but is nothing other than "man"—it is this distinction that enables Heidegger to claim that "Being and Time" is something other than philosophical anthropology. Heidegger's account of Dasein passes through a dissection of the experiences of "Angst" and mortality, and then through an analysis of the structure of "care" as such. From there he
Being and Nothingness Iris Murdoch, writing that continental philosophy shares the same general orientation as English analytic philosophy, compared Sartre's work to the British philosopher Gilbert Ryle's "The Concept of Mind" (1949). According to the philosopher Steven Crowell, "Being and Nothingness" had come to be seen as outdated by the time of Sartre's death in 1980, since, with its emphasis on consciousness, it seemed "tied to the subjectivism and psychologism that structuralism and analytic philosophy had finally laid to rest." The philosopher David Pears, writing in the anthology "Philosophical essays on Freud" (1982), criticized Sartre's critique of Freud, describing it as complex but