Being and Time, written by Martin Heidegger (1889 –1976) as Sein
und Zeit in 1927 Sein und Zeit was Martin Heidegger’s first
major philosophical work and is considered to be his most
important contribution to philosophy – in fact it is generally
regarded (by Continental Philosophy) as the single most
important philosophical work of the 20th Century. Sein und Zeit
was first published in the spring of 1927 in the
phenomenological journal Jahrbuch fur Phanomenologie und
phanomenologische Forschung Vol. VIII and simultaneously as a
separate volume. The first major translation of Sein und Zeit
into English was introduced by Macquarie and Robinson in 1962,
as Being and Time. Joan Stambaugh introduced a new translation
in 1996. This 1996 translation is generally considered to be
clearer, reconciling problems in the 1962 translation raised by
over 30 years of English Heideggerian scholarship. The text is
difficult with very dense writing loaded with an extensive
technical vocabulary. Reading the text in English poses