Being and Time, part 3: Being-in-the-world | Simon Critchley

How Heidegger turned Descartes upside down, so that we are, and only therefore think

I talked in my first blog entry about Heidegger's attempt to destroy our standard, traditional philosophical vocabulary and replace it with something new. What Heidegger seeks to destroy in particular is a certain picture of the relation between human beings and the world that is widespread in modern philosophy and whose source is Descartes (indeed Descartes is the philosopher who stands most accused in Being...