"Lee Braver cuts through the jargon to present Heidegger's ideas in clear English, using illuminating examples and explications of thorny passages. In so doing, he offers readers an accessible overview of Heidegger's entire career. The first half of the book presents a guide through Being and Time, Heidegger's early masterpiece, while the second half covers the key themes of his later writing, including technology, subjectivity, history, nihilism, agency, and the nature of thought itself. As Heidegger's later work is deeply engaged with other philosophers, Braver explains the relevance of Plato, Descartes, Kant, and Nietzsche for Heidegger's thought"--Publisher.

The Introduction to Being and Time -- Being and Time 1. I-IV: Being-in and the World -- Being and Time 1. V-VI: The There and Care -- Being and Time Division Two: 2. I-III.64: Authenticity -- Being and Time 2. III.65-VI: Temporality as the Meaning of Existence -- Being and Time: Conclusion -- Introduction to the Later Heidegger -- History, Nazism, the History of Being and of Its Forgetting -- Descartes, Thinking, and Free Will -- Gratitude, Language, and Art -- Technology, Nietzsche, and Nihilism -- Influences, Developments, and Criticisms.