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As deep as Heidegger's thoughts go, the shallow are his racist views and Nazism is starting to show. What a masterpiece and at the same time what a disgrace of a book.

Phenomenology of Da-sein is Hermeneutics in the original signification of that word, which designates the work of interpretation.

A interesting ethnographic approach to the outskirts of what we call nowadays MMO culture. Although the book seems to just outline the basics of one's experience in the Virtual World, she is doing so from the perspective of a person, never before engaged in activities such as "gaming". Thus, she is providing a glimpse to a vast and unexplored world of the alternative reality, from a "noob" POV.