Sebastian asked:

I am working on an independent study on Heidegger and language. I have some really good books to
work with but I am a little stuck on the paper. So far what I have is exegesis and I have little in the
way of objections and replies. Can anyone recommend to me how to get started on this? The only
objections I can find are in the way of "he is difficult to read" which isn't very helpful and a little
ignorant as well. I am just grasping his thought, so it is difficult for me to come up with my own critical
analysis of his work.

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This isn't a question I'd normally answer, because I'm not really a Heidegger fan. But I just thought I'd
throw something out, since no one else has... you can read Gelven, M. A Commentary on
Heidegger's Being and Time.DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989, if you want a
readable commentary... but it's written by a Heidegger enthusiast, to put it mildly... For a more critical
and somewhat odder approach, try Tugendhat, E. Self-Consciousness and Self-Determination.
Translated by P. Stern. Edited by T. McCarthy, Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1986. The latter I think is more linguistically oriented. Now if you
reallywant to get into Heidegger's linguistic issues, of course the Macquarrie and Robinson
translation of Being and Time has zillions(a technical philosophical term... haha) of comments on his
use of German (and Greek, and...).

Steven Ravett Brown