On the Truth of Being: Reflections on Heidegger's Later Philosophy

Joseph J. Kockelmans provides a clear and systematic treatment of thecentral themes and topics of Heidegger's later writings, focusing on theall-important question of the relationship of truth and Being. If we are tounderstand Heidegger's thought, Kockelmans explains, we must conceive it as a pathor way, rather than as a finished system. Adopting this approach himself, Koc

Joseph J. Kockelmans provides a clear and systematic treatment of thecentral themes and topics of Heidegger's later writings, focusing on theall-important question of the relationship of truth and Being. If we are tounderstand Heidegger's thought, Kockelmans explains, we must conceive it as a pathor way, rather than as a finished system. Adopting this approach himself, Kockelmansleads us with scholarly care through the wide range of issues that Heidegger wroteabout between roughly 1935 and 1965. After a discussion of Heidegger's own effort tolearn to think, subsequent chapters present Heidegger's views on such matters as themeaning 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 hasreached its logical end.