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Oct 25, 2026 1 hr 12 min

Heidegger: The Question of Being

from The Open Treasury: Narrated by Tara

An eight-chapter guided course on Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) and Being and Time: the Messkirch childhood and the Brentano book that posed the question of being, the forgotten question from Plato's Sophist, the world as a web of significance rather than a container of objects, the Anyone and falling, anxiety and care as the being of Dasein, death, conscience and guilt, the turn toward time and history, and the inheritance the book left behind. An independent critical listening course: every claim is labeled to its source, with Heidegger's own words, the Husserl and Dilthey context, the Lukács and Marcuse reception, and modern scholarship kept on separate shelves throughout. The 1933 rectorate and the Black Notebooks are covered directly in the final chapter. Quotations are short and attributed; the Being and Time renderings quoted are the course's own, made from the German text for this course (the published English translations are not used), and this release grants no rights in the underlying works. German quotations are rendered with anglicized pronunciation. Narrated by Tara, an AI voice. Original narration and commentary CC0 1.0 Universal. Sources Sein und Zeit (1927), German text: https://archive.org/details/sein_und_zeit - selections: opening motto and §§1-8, §§9, 12-27, §§29-30, 35-41, §§46-53, §§54-60, §§65-71 (a fraction of the book; no full coverage claimed) Was ist Metaphysik? (1929), German text, first edition: https://archive.org/details/wasistmetaphysik0000heid_v7x6 - read near-full Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Martin Heidegger" (Mark Wrathall): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/ - background and reception map; quoted in short attributed phrases in chapters one and seven Later works (Letter on Humanism, the technology and artwork essays, and others) are described in the course's own words with titles and dates only, no quotations. Carnap's 1931 critique is described minimally in chapter eight, no quotations. Chapters 00:00 Chapter 1: The Sexton's Son 07:28 Chapter 2: The Question Everyone Forgot 16:29 Chapter 3: The World You Already Live In 25:25 Chapter 4: The Anyone 35:24 Chapter 5: Care 44:13 Chapter 6: Being Toward Death 54:50 Chapter 7: The Turn 65:03 Chapter 8: The Inheritance

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