Introduction to metaphysics

by Richard Polt, Gregory Fried, Martin Heidegger

1961 182 pages eng

Why is there anything at all, instead of nothing? How are we to understand what it is to be? Heidegger argues, in magisterial, flowing and esoteric language, that Western civilisation has gone wrong because it has systematically misunderstood this question. Instead, he claims that we have trie…