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Title: Built on Practice
Review: Dreyfus is able to write one of the strongest intros to Being and Time because of his background: instead of spending his entire career trying to work out the esoteric details of this text, as many history of philosophy professors do, he as appropriated his understanding into his own unique and important work on modern technologies. The result is that he is able to relate this understanding, although of course it will have its personal emphases (as any intro does... the only text that lets you know truly and fully what Heidegger is up to without a slant, is Being and Time itself), clearly and effectively; other scholars let their specialist debates overly influence and complicate their introductory work.The only work about Being and Time that deserves five stars, however, is Being and Time... and even though this work is notoriously difficult, please do try to read it primarily and then use these aids for clarification if you ares stuck.
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