Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:15:31 +0100
Subject: Re: Routledge Guidebook to Being and Time


Stuart, 

You write:
> I still feel Mulhall
> introduces B&T in a more useful way than Dreyfus. 

It depends perhaps on what one expects. For some reason 
or other Mulhall does not make it clear to me why I 
should read Being and Time. This is possibly not 
Mulhall's but Routledge's fault. I have the same 
problem with their introduction to Plato's Politeia.
Dreyfus leaves no doubt that he has lived for twenty 
years with Being and Time, and why it has become a part 
of his life. He confronts the teachings of the young 
Heidegger with those of contemporary philosophers as if 
he has a stake in the outcome of the dispute.
The problem with Dreyfus is of course the fact that he
might shy people away from reading the second part of 
Being and Time. And I do not think that this is the 
right way to teach philosophy - certainly not Heidegger, 
with his "Weg - nicht Werke".  

Kindest regards,
Henk



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