Heidegger: A Guide for the Perplexed is a thorough, cogent and reliable account of Heidegger’s philosophy, ideal for the student who needs to reach a sound understanding of this complex and important thinker. The book covers Heidegger’s philosophy in its entirety, including an exposition of Being and Time and examination of ideas central to his later work. His conceptions of both ontology and phenomenology are explored in full, as is the concept of Dasein, Heidegger’s term for the human way of existence.