In The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's 'Being and Time', seventeen leading scholars explore the central themes of Heidegger's revolutionary work.

1. An overview of Being and Time Mark A. Wrathall and Max Murphey; 2. Martin Heidegger's Being and Time: a carefully planned accident? Alfred Denker; 3. The question of being Taylor Carman; 4. The semantics of dasein and the modality of Being and Time Wayne Martin; 5. Heidegger on space and spatiality David R. Cerbone; 6. Being-with-others Hubert L. Dreyfus; 7. Why mood matters Matthew Ratcliffe; 8. Heidegger on human understanding Mark A. Wrathall; 9. Heidegger's pragmatic-existential theory of language and assertion Barbara Fultner; 10. The empire of signs: Heidegger's critique of idealism in Being and Time Peter E. Gordon; 11. Heidegger on scepticism, truth and falsehood Denis McManus; 12. Death and demise in Being and Time Iain Thomson; 13. Freedom and the choice to choose oneself in Being and Time Béatrice Han-Pile; 14. Authenticity and resoluteness William Blattner; 15. Temporality as the ontological sense of care Stephan Käufer; 16. Historical finitude Joseph K. Schear; 17. What if Heidegger were a phenomenologist? Thomas Sheehan.