Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time: Being-in-the-world pp. 78-102

A digression, because many of these pages are boring.

Heidegger investigates the obvious and unnoticed on the one hand and the disguised on the other. These are two different modes of hermeneutic investigation: the hermeneutics of everydayness and the hermeneutics of suspicion. The latter is far more interesting.

A hermeneutics of suspicion uncovers disguised truths. This is what Marx is up to in Capital, Freud in Interpretation of Dreams, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and so on, Beauvoir in The Ethics of Ambiguity, and Heidegger in Division II of Being and Time, in his appeal to our call to conscience.