ABSTRACT
There seems to be agreement even among people who do not read Heidegger that
Being and Time is one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth
century. Published in 1927 when Heidegger was thirty-six years old, the book
represents an intensive effort to bring together a number of seemingly conflict-
ing intellectual traditions, including, among others, those of Aristotle, St Paul, St
Augustine, Luther, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Bergson and Husserl.
