Being and Time would “let things be,” Heidegger has sometimes been read as an intellectual forerunner of today’s “deep ecology” movement. "Being and Time" also influenced the enactivist approach to cognition. Informational notes Citations Bibliography Being and Time Being and Time () is a 1927 book by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, in which the author seeks to analyse the concept of Being. Heidegger maintains that this has fundamental importance for philosophy and that, since the time of the Ancient Greeks, philosophy has avoided the question, turning instead to the analysis of particular beings. Heidegger attempts to revive ontology through a reawakening of
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