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Being and Time
by Martin Heidegger
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good, mild edge wear and soiling to text block. About Very Good unclipped jacket shows shallow edge wear and chipping, some
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Hardcover octavo in black and white lettered dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 589 pp. Very Good, mild edge wear and soiling to text block. About Very Good unclipped jacket shows shallow edge wear and chipping, some scuffing and soiling throughout.. Early printing (1975; 15th) of the first American Edition of Heidegger's most impactful and enduring book. A translation of SEIN UND ZEIT by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson.
Synopsis
Being and Time is a book by German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Although written quickly, and despite the fact that Heidegger never completed the project outlined in the introduction, it remains his most important work and has profoundly influenced 20th-century philosophy, particularly existentialism, hermeneutics and deconstruction.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2159
- Title
- Being and Time
- Author
- Martin Heidegger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover octavo in black and white lettered dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 589 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, mild edge wear and soiling to text block. About Very Good unclipped jacket shows shallow edge wear and chipping, some
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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