Intimations of Mortality: Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being

by David Farrell Krell

Book Overview

Heidegger's thinking has an underlying unity, this book argues, and has cogency for seemingly diverse domains of modern culture: philosophy and religion, aesthetics and literary criticism, intellectual history and social theory. "The theme of mortality--finite human existence--pervades Heidegger's thought," in the author's words, "before, during, and after his magnum opus, Being and Times , published in 1927." This theme is manifested in Heidegger's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271007540
• ISBN13: 9780271007540
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"