Sein und Zeit

I've been struggling with Heidegger's Being and Time recently, with a little help from a from friend who understands H. better than I do. I feel like I get the gist of what he's trying to say, some of the time, but a lot of it is just going right over my head. Still, perhaps I have to read it once with little comprehension to better understand it later. I'm finding it pretty exciting reading; perhaps that's because it represents a different way of doing philosophy than I'm used to.

My interest in philosophy recently has been pretty meta--that is, I am really interested in the entire history of philosophy, broadly construed, and the whole possibility of a philosophical enterprise. For people who supposedly spend their lives thinking "deeply," professional philosophers that I've met seem fairly uninterested in philosophical questions about philosophy itself--they mostly just take the methodologies given to them by their teachers, journals, whatever and then start plugging away at problems. That's not me. I doubt I'll be able to contribute something to "Philosophy," in the broad sense, but at the very least I want to have some conception of how the whole history of the field hangs together.