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KING, Magda. A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time. Edited by John Llewelyn. SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xxvi + 397 pp. Paper, $22.95-This book is one of the most comprehensive and detailed commentaries on both divisions of Heidegger's Being and Time available in English. The chapters on division 1 were originally published in 1964 under the title Heidegger's Philosophy: A Guide to His Basic Thought. The new edition prepared by John Llewelyn includes Magda King's commentaries on division 2 of Being and Time, which are now published for the first time posthumously. The renderings of Heidegger's German terms have also been revised to correspond to Joan Stambaugh's new translation of Being and Time. In its new shape, this book is an excellent guide through Heidegger's master work.
The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 is an exposition of the basic question at the center of Being and Time, namely, the question of being. On the basis of an extremely clear and detailed introduction to this question, the author discusses and illuminates some of the most intricate passages of Being and Time in the next two parts of the book, which correspond roughly to the first two divisions of Being and Time respectively.
The fact that this study was written almost forty years ago contributes to...