Being ground his concept of freedom ontologically by distinguishing between being-in-itself and being-for-itself. Being is also understood as one's "state of being," and hence its common meaning is in the context of human (personal) experience, with aspects that involve expressions and manifestations coming from an innate "being", or personal character. Heidegger coined the term ""dasein"" for this property of being in his influential work "Being and Time" ("this entity which each of us is himself…we shall denote by the term 'dasein.'"), in which he argued that being or "dasein" links one's sense of one's body to one's perception of world. Heidegger,
Rage and Time was "a first step" toward such a thing. "Publishers Weekly" called the book "a brilliant and conceptually rich analysis of the influence of rage on the development of Western culture". The critic continued: "Though frequently hampered by excessive academic jargon and a theoretically questionable oscillation between the non-equivalent notions of Thymos and rage, the book offers a fascinating account of the historical dynamics of social development". The French translation of the book received the Prix européen de l'essai Charles Veillon in 2008. Rage and Time Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation () is a 2006 book by the German philosopher