Being and Time Heidegger was forced to prepare the book for publication when he had completed only the first two divisions of part one. The remaining divisions planned for "Being and Time" (particularly the divisions on time and being, Immanuel Kant, and Aristotle) were never published, although in many respects they were addressed in one form or another in Heidegger's other works. In terms of structure, "Being and Time" remains as it was when it first appeared in print; it consists of the lengthy two-part introduction, followed by Division One, the "Preparatory Fundamental Analysis of Dasein," and Division Two, "Dasein and Temporality." Heidegger
Being in itself 'Being in itself' to be at the same time the most vague and general concept possible to contemplate, but also the topic of greatest interest to him as a philosopher. In Sartrean existentialism, being-in-itself ("être-en-soi") is also contrasted with the being of persons, which he describes as a combination of, or vacillation or tension between, being-for-itself ("être-pour-soi") and being-for-others ("I'être-pour-autrui"). Being-in-itself refers to objects in the external world — a mode of existence that simply is. It is not conscious so it is neither active nor passive and harbors no potentiality for transcendence. This mode of being is relevant to