Being, Man, and Death: A Key to Heidegger - Paperback

by James M. Demske (Author)

Death, a perennial problem for philosophers and theologians, is especially crucial in the thought of Martin Heidegger. This penetrating commentary presents the concept of death as a unifying motif that illuminates many of the difficulties and obscurities of Heidegger's philosophy. Heidegger comes to see death as revealing the ultimate meaning not only of human existence, but of being itself. He thus confers upon the concept a force and sharpness, an ontological depth which is found in perhaps no

Author Biography

James M. Demske, S.J., is the president of Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. He received an S.T.L. at the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, and a Ph.D. at the University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Father Demske is also author of Encounters with Silence and, with Avery R. Dulles, S.J., and Robert J. O'Connell, S.J., of Introductory Metaphysics.