The Concept of Time

The Concept of Time presents the reconstructed text of a lecture delivered by Martin Heidegger to the Marburg Theological Society in 1924. It offers a fascinating insight into the developmental years leading up to the publication in 1927 of his magnum opus Being and Time itself one of the most influential philosophical works this century. In The Concept of Time Heidegger introduces many of the central themes of his analyses of human existence which were subsequently incorporated into Being and Time themes such as Dasein Being-in-the-world everydayness disposition care authenticity death uncanniness temporality and historicity. Starting out by asking: What is time? Heidegger proceeds to radicalise the concept of time and our relation to it ending with the question: Are we ourselves time? Am I time?