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Being and time (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a book that intends to make manifest what we are already familiar with, not to make it so explicit that a martian or computer could come to know it.

Being and time (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a fragment, a dead end, a "woodpath" that never makes it out of the woods. Heidegger will never show to his satisfaction that time is the horizon of Being. But some of us appreciate a good question at least as much as a good answer, and along the way to the dead end, there is so much to discover in the woods.

Being and time (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a "spiral" structure: Heidegger keeps reinterpreting the phenomena in order to get a deeper understanding of them.

Being and time (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a book that argues that to exist means to have, to be in, a world – always already.

Being and time (n.) failed ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠on truth because it argued defensively: always aiming at what it wanted to ward off, it could never know truth from the ground up.