Martin Heidegger is the most important and influential philosopher in the twentieth-century Continental tradition, and Being and Time is his magnum opus. The aim of this course (which will continue in Fall 2015 by completing Being and Time and reading some of Heidegger’s later writings) is simply to read carefully and critically the first division of the book and as much of the second division as we can cover. The objective of the course is for students to have a firm grasp on the key philosophical issues and concepts raised by the project that Heidegger called fundamental ontology. These include: Heidegger’s relation to Husserl and his critical adoption of the phenomenological method; his critique of traditional epistemology; his account of the nature of the world and the relation of persons to world; his critique of the Cartesian understanding of world and space; his account of intersubjectivity and his critique of modernity; the key concept of ‘thrown projection’ and an explanation of the various ‘existentials’ (state-of-mind, understanding, and discourse); his concepts of thrownness, falling, and inauthenticity; his account of moods and anxiety as the basic attunement of the human being; the meaning of care as the being of the human being; his critique of the realism-vs.-idealism debate; his concept of truth and his critique of the traditional concept of truth; and analyses of being-toward-death, conscience, authenticity, and historicity.