On the truth of being
Subtitle: reflections on Heidegger'slater philosophy
By: Joseph J. Kockelmans.
Series: Studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Heidegger, Martin, -- 1889-1976.
Description: Joseph J. Kockelmans provides a clear and systematic treatment of the central themes and topics of Heidegger's later writings, focusing on the all-important question of the relationship of truth and Being. If we are to understand Heidegger's thought, Kockelmans explains, we must conceive it as a path or way, rather than as a finished system. Adopting this approach himself, Kockelmans leads us with scholarly care through the wide range of issues that Heidegger wrote about between roughly 1935 and 1965. After a discussion of Heidegger's own effort to learn to think, subsequent chapters present Heidegger's views on such matters as the meaning of Being; the ontological difference; heaven and earth; gods and mortals; and language, art, science, technology, ethics, and politics. In conclusion, Kockelmans reflects on the task of thinking in an age when classical philosophy has reached its logical end.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography, p. 317-327.