Parts of the Introduction first appeared as "Ontology, the Ontological Difference, and the Unthought,' in Tulane Studies in Philosophy, XXXII (1984): 95-102.
Parts of Chapter 2 first appeared as 'Dasein, Existence and Death,' in Philosophy Today, XXVIII (1984): 52-65.
Parts of Chapter 5 first appeared as The Time of Being and the metaphysics of presence,' in Man and World, 29 (1996): 147-66.
Quotations from Heidegger's Being and Time are by permission of Blackwell Publishers.