Editing Being and Time (section)

===Hermeneutics===
{{See also|Hermeneutics#Heidegger (1889–1976)}}
''Being and Time'' employed the "[[hermeneutic circle]]" as a method of analysis or structure for ideas. According to Susann M. Laverty (2003), Heidegger's circle moves from the parts of experience to the whole of experience and back and forth again and again to increase the depth of engagement and understanding. Laverty writes ([[:no:Steinar Kvale|Kvale]] 1996), "This spiraling through a hermeneutic circle ends when one has reached a place of sensible meaning, free of inner contradictions, for the moment."<ref>{{Cite journal|doi = 10.1177/160940690300200303|title = Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Phenomenology: A Comparison of Historical and Methodological Considerations|year = 2003|last1 = Laverty|first1 = Susann M.|journal = International Journal of Qualitative Methods|volume = 2|issue = 3|pages = 21–35|s2cid = 145728698|doi-access = free}}</ref>

The hermeneutic circle and certain theories concerning history in ''Being and Time'' are acknowledged within the text to rely on the writings of [[Wilhelm Dilthey#Hermeneutics|Wilhelm Dilthey]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Scharff |first=Robert C. |date=January 1997 |title=Heidegger's "Appropriation" of Dilthey before Being and Time. |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/225780/pdf |journal=Journal of the History of Philosophy |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=105–128 |doi= 10.1353/hph.1997.0021 |access-date=September 19, 2020 |publisher= Johns Hopkins University Press |s2cid=96473379 |quote= In a word, I think the record shows that the Dilthey appropriation taught the young Heidegger ''how to philosophize''.[127]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The technique was later employed in the writings of [[Jürgen Habermas]], per "Influence and reception" below.