What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism – as well as existentialism and much of postmodern though. Exposition of the question of the meaning of being – The interpretation of Dasein in terms of temporality, and the explication of time as the transcendental horizon for the question of being: Preparatory fundamental analysis of Dasein ; Dasein and temporality.