The Embers and the Stars
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 15, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780226450179
Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy; Ethics (General); Philosophy; General; Philosophy / General; Ethics; Philosophical anthropology; Philosophy of nature
First sentence: When, in 1928, Martin Heidegger described the human as a sheer "presence," contingently thrown into an alien context which constantly threatens to engulf him with its instrumentality, he appeared, to many of his contemporaries, to be doing no more than acknowledging an evident truth.