Heidegger Towards Death: Being-towards-death

This video is about Heidegger's idea of "Being-towards-death." More specifically, the bulk of it is a close textual analysis of the first chapter of Being and Time Division II. It is prefaced with an introduction to Heidegger, his thought, and care specifically. The video also presents a challenge from Jean-Paul Sartre and a possible response to it. Finally, it ends with a discussion of the philosophy of (the authentic) life as it results from our Being-towards-death.

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Timestamps:

00:00 || Introduction
00:50 || Introducing Heidegger, Dasein, and Care
05:00 || Death and Being-towards-death
17:25 || Sartre's Challenge
20:15 || Authentic Being-towards-death
26:07 || Conclusion

Sources:

Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. HarperCollins, 1962.

Wrathall, Mark A. The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger’s Being and Time. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Polt, Richard. Heidegger: An Introduction. Cornell University Press, 1999. Chapter 4: “Being and Time: Division II and Beyond.”

Piotr Hoffman, “Death, time, and history: Division II of Being and Time.” from Charles B. Guignon, The Cambridge Companion Heidegger, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, Being and Nothingness. Secaucus: Citadel Press, 1974.

Wheeler, Michael, “Heidegger.” Stanford Enc. of Philosophy, 2011, Accessed 3/27/21 from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/he...

Heidegger’s death in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/27/ar...