On the Truth of Being

<p>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.</p>