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 has been traditional with non-existential philosophers" and thereby remaining a Cartesian rationalist. Susan Sontag, writing in an essay in "The Supplement" to the "Columbia Spectator" that was later published in "Against Interpretation" (1966), praised Sartre's discussions of the body and concrete relations with others, identifying them as part of a French tradition of serious thought about problems of fundamental importance. John B. Vickery wrote that Sartre's work resembles Sir James George Frazer's "The Golden Bough" (1890) in the way its author "merges psychology and the concrete sense of fiction", although he considered it less readable than Frazer's work. The philosopher