<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> The unique intermediary position of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927) between ontology, transcendental philosophy, phenomenology, existential analysis, and hermeneutics along with the controversial history of its interpretation make an introductory commentary essential. For this 3rd edition the essays were updated with the latest in international Heidegger research.