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This text interprets and evaluates the topic of Martin Heidegger's philosphy in the context of the full range of Heidegger's thought. With this comprehensive approach, Herman Philipse distinguishes the center from the periphery, the essential from the incidental in Heidegger's philosophy. Among other achievements this allows him to shed light on the controversial relationship between Heidegger's life and thought - in particular the connections between his philosophy and his involvement with Nazism. Herman Philpse begins by explaining which problems an interpretation of Heidegger's question of being should solve, and specifies which type of interpretation is the best basis for an evaluation of Heidegger's thought. Philpse identifies various strands or leitmotifs in Heidegger's idea of being, and shows how these strands hang together in the philosopher's thought. In doing so Philpse offers insights into Heidegger's views on such subjects as human existence, authenticity, logic, and language, and into his readings of such philosophers as Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and Nietache. Philipse then integrates into his interpretation of Heidegger's overall theory the latest scholarship about the