July saw the incarnation of a Not School Study Group that is dedicated to a close and thorough reading of Martin Heidegger's 1927 classic Being and Time. Due to the slow nature of the group, we are not set to end at any specific time and are therefore ongoing.
The group is centered around weekly video or audio chat meetings. Though we aim for a close and thorough reading we are under no pretense that what we are doing is a complete reading. If we don't get something or just think Heidegger is flat out unclear we slug through it anyway. On average we read approximately 20 pages a week.
Click here for our discussion of Being and Time's Introduction I where we cover the overall project of the text, the difficulty of even understanding the project and why Dasein is the entity to be interrogated. Click here for our discussion of Introduction II where we cover what Heidegger wants to get out of the project, his notion of phenomena and phenomenology and how we don't know what the hell Hermeneutics is. In addition to the audio provided, the group plans to maintain all past and future recordings in video format on this Youtube channel.
Citizens can download the mp3s from the Free Stuff page under "Not School Discussion Groups Audio."
Update: The third and fourth discussions (covering Div I.1 and I.2) have now been posted. Get them on the Free Stuff page or watch them here and here.
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-Stevie LeValley
Where are you at currently? I started Being and Time recently – wondering if it would be possible for me to catch up.
Hi Tim,
We are currently reading Div I.2 this week. So we are still pretty early on in the book.
-Stevie
thanks for sharing this, you all might enjoy:
http://enowning.blogspot.com/