Continental Philosophy

Heidegger on Phenomenology and the Question of Being

Primary Sources:

Heidegger, Being and Time, Author's Preface, Exergue, Introduction
(Sartre, Being and Nothingness, Introduction)
(Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception, Preface)

Secondary Sources:

R. Schmitt, Heidegger on Being Human, chapters 1, 4
H. Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World, Introduction and chapters 1 - 2
C. Macann, Four Phenomenological Philosophers, pp. 56 - 69
D. Cooper, Existentialism, chapters 1 - 3

Questions:

What is the question of being? What makes the question of being the fundamental question?

Why does our investigation of this question have to being with "Dasein"?

What is 'phenomenology'? (How is it different from idealism or phenomenalism?) Why is it the only method for investigating the question of Being? (Do these three authors have exactly the same conception of phenomenology?)

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