Being and Time hermeneutics), it must rely upon repetitive yet progressive acts of interpretation. "The methodological sense of phenomenological description is "interpretation"." Thus the question Heidegger asks in the introduction to "Being and Time" is: what is the being that will give access to the question of the meaning of Being? Heidegger's answer is that it can only be that being for whom the question of Being is important, the being for whom Being matters. As this answer already indicates, the being for whom Being is a question is not a "what", but a "who". Heidegger calls this being "Dasein" (an ordinary German
Rage and Time Rage and Time Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation () is a 2006 book by the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. It traces the role and prevalence of rage in Western history, starting with the Thumos described by Homer in the "Iliad". Sloterdijk argues that a productive form of rage has been suppressed by first Christianity and then psychoanalysis. An English translation by Mario Wenning was published in 2010. Julia Encke of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" gave Sloterdijk the label of a "democratically thinking Nietzsche reader" due to his search for a rage free from ressentiment, and wrote that the book