Tool-Being

Tool-Being offers a new assessment of Martin Heidegger''s famous tool-analysis, and with it, an audacious reappraisal of Heidegger''s legacy to twenty-first-century philosophy.

Every reader of Being and Time is familiar with the opposition between readiness-to-hand (Zuhandenheit) and presence-at-hand (Vorhandenheit), but commentators usually follow Heidegger''s wishes in giving this distinction a l...