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would have helped if there was a reference book... can anyone suggest any?

Taylor This may be a bit late, but I found these resources to be helpful:

Karsten Harries seminar notes - http://karstenharries.commons.yale.ed...

John Tietz's…moreThis may be a bit late, but I found these resources to be helpful:

Karsten Harries seminar notes - http://karstenharries.commons.yale.ed...

John Tietz's outline and study guide - https://ssl.humanities-online.de/down...

Roderick Munday's explication and commentary (only covers first half) - http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/b_reso...

Robert Cavalier's notes (doesn't cover all of the second division) - http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/Cavalier/802...(less)

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How readable is Being and Time?

Chad The most difficult book I can think of that despite its reputation as a colossus of incomprehensibility, it is a must-read. It's easier to make it a l…moreThe most difficult book I can think of that despite its reputation as a colossus of incomprehensibility, it is a must-read. It's easier to make it a life's work like I have, to slowly read everything MH wrote. In German. What I have understood, I promise you were worth the "effort." The way MH viewed our place in the world becomes more beautiful and less (what appears, at first to be) pretentious-jargony-phenomenology-ontology-incomprehensible type of "work." And if "work" is the apt word for what I am doing reading MH, then it has become a labor of love.
For you to see things like MH did to write B&T... it is an adventure back to yourself in a way I cannot say anything else has affected me. Or you, or all the other Daseins.

He embeds the subject back into the world, man! Read it.(less)

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