Inheritance and Originality

What does it mean to think of philosophy in the condition of modernism in which its relation to its past and future has become a relevant problem? This book argues that the writings of Wittgenstein Heidegger and Kierkegaard are best understood as responsive (each in their own way) to such questions. Through detailed analysis of these authors'' most influential texts Stephen Mulhall reorients our sense of the philosophical work each text aims to accomplish engendering a critical dialogue between them from which the elements of a new conception of philosophy might emerge.