Abstract

The bulk of the book is devoted to working out basic features or categories for each of the three senses of being which Heidegger develops: the original sense of the earliest Greeks, the obscured sense of metaphysics and science, and the new sense which is just appearing. This is preceded by a brief but intensive presentation of Aristotle's notion of ousia and Hegel's notion of the absolute self-knowing idea as the beginning and end of a tradition which Heidegger seeks to overcome. Marx sees Heidegger's great achievement to be a conception of essence and being which allows for the creation of the genuinely new. At once a helpful introduction and a significant critical work, this book should be of interest to both student and specialist.--J. B. B.