The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy

by Richard Polt

Book Overview

"The heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures that bring us into our own by making all being, including our being, into an urgent issue. In emergency, being emerges."--from The Emergency of BeingThe esoteric Contributions to Philosophy, often considered Martin Heidegger's second main work after Being and Time, is crucial to any interpretation of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801437326
• ISBN13: 9780801437328
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher