Inwood's introduction to Heidegger's thought focuses on his most important work, "Being and Time", and its major themes of existence in the world, in authenticity, guilt, destiny, truth, and the nature of time.

Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; References; 1 Heidegger's Life; 2 Heidegger's Philosophy; 3 Being; 4 Dasein; 5 The World; 6 Language, Truth, and Care; 7 Time, Death, and Conscience; 8 Temporality, Transcendence, and Freedom; 9 History and World-Time; 10 Art; 11 St Martin of Messkirch?; Further Reading; Glossary; Index.