a priori understanding 4-5, 14, 18, 59
aboriginal communities 99
'abstracting' 17
Aristotle 7, 11, 19, 67, 94-5, 119, 124, 138, 144, 148, 153
authentic being toward death 87-91
authentic timeliness 114-20, 131
being
see also question of being
Blattner, William xix-xx, xxix, xxxi
Borges, Jorge Luis 149
Bourdieu, Pierre 7
Camus, Albert xxxiv
Carman, Taylor xviii-xxiii, xxxi
Chinese language 167
Christianity xxxvi, 83, 110-11, 166
circular criticism li
Collins, James 44
consciousness 94
culture xi-xii, xvi, 6, 29-30, 36, 106, 137, 150-53; sec also American culture; Japanese culture; Western culture
"databilty' (Heidegger) 130
death
context for discussion of 53-6
Heidegger's conceptions of xvii-xxxii, 81-4
historical background to conceptions of 56-61
Derrida, J. 167
Descartes, René xv, 11, 14, 19, 31, 42, 77, 89, 119, 144, 155, 163
Edwards, Paul xxxi, xlix, 63-4, 73
Egyptian civilization 75, 99, 121
Einstein, Albert 127
"ek-sistence' (Heidegger) 2, 12, 59
enculturation 6
Enlightenment thought xv
'existence' (Heidegger) 2, 21, 72
'existentiale' 27
existentiell understanding 119, 123
'expecting' (Heidegger) 104
Ferry, Luc 26
Feyerabend, P.K. 11
finitude ix, xiii-xiv, xxiv, xxxv, 21-3, 29, 54, 75, 127-8, 134
Fink, Eugen 74
'forerunning' of death 1 16-18
'forgetting' (Heidegger) 104-5
Foucault, Michel 149
'fundamental ontology' 25-6, 146
Gadamer, H.G. 58
Greek language 167
Greek philosophy 16-17, 19, 75, 80, 87, 98-101, 124, 138, 148, 152, 160-63
Guignon, Charles xviii, xxii-xxiii, xxxi
Hallowell, Irving 150
Hebrew language 167
Hegel, G.W.F. li, 13, 37, 53, 56-60, 67, 90, 147
hermeneutic circle 29
Herodotus 151
Hitler, Adolf 26
Hölderlin, Johann 117
holism 9
Husserl, Edmund li-lii, 42, 47, 65, 94-5, 101, 120-21, 129, 141, 147
The Iliad 151
individuality 30
interpretive thinking 108
Kalahari bushmen 99
Kant, Immanuel xv, 4-5, 19, 31-2, 58-9, 65, 94-5, 99, 101, 117, 119, 144-7, 161
Kierkegaard, Søren xxi, xxix-xxx, xxxvi, 31, 36-7, 39, 50, 53, 56, 60-61, 82-3, 90, 100, 110
Kuhn, Thomas xxvi-xxvii, xlix, 8, 11, 162-3
'leveling'(Heidegger) 106
McCormick, Peter 45
Machiavelli, N. 125
Macquarrie, J. 89
Mandel, Ross 39
Mayan civilizaton 121
measurement of time and space 131-3
metaphysics 12, 16-18, 22-3, 59, 146, 160
mimesis 7
mineness 36
Mirfenderesky, Jamshid 73
Moby Dick 140
Morsbach, Helmut 6
Newton, Isaac (and Newtonian science) 11. 127, 145, 162-3
Nietzsche, Fritdrich xxx, 16, 26, 35, 37, 43, 75, 77-8, 84-5, 118, 125, 154-5, 159, 162
nihilism 155
ontological difference 13, 17-18
Parmenides ix-x, xxvii, lii, 16, 23, 99, 123
Paul, Si 60
'phenomenological turn' in thought 49-50
Pindar 138
Planck, Max 86
Plato 5, 11, 16-17, 43, 99, 124, 148, 155, 162
preintentional assumptions 10
Priestly, Joseph 8
question of being 1-2, 11-12, 28, 42, 48, 108, 143
'relating' (Heidegger) 105
Renault, Alain 26
resoluteness xxvii, 107-11, 113-16, 122-3
Sartre, Jean-Paul xviii, xxxiv, xxxvi, 47, 100
Scheffler, I. 162
Schopenhauer, A. xxiv-xxv, xxviii
Schrag, Calvin 39
Searle, John xxxi, 9-10, 14-15, 165
Sophocles 138
Suppe, F. 162
temporality 18-21, 25-6, 143-9
Thueydides 151
time
halting and reversing of 136
Heidegger's conceptions of 18-19, 128, 131, 137
timeliness 20-21, 29, 55, 93-6, 127-37, 143, 147
finite 135
'transcendence' (Heidegger) 5, 140
translation of 'Being' and 'Time' xxxix-xli
'turn' in Heidegger's thought 44-54
Vernant, Jean-Pierre 87
'waiting-toward' (Heidegger) 106
Western culture xiv, 12-13, 99, 112, 121-2, 137, 144, 160, 164
'wilhin-time-ness' 129
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 5-6, 8, 10, 14-15, 20, 38
'world-building' (Heidegger) 123-5
'world-entry' (Heidegger) 95
'world-history' (Heidegger) 140-41