The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy

ÒThe heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures that bring us into our own by making all being, including our being, into an urgent issue. In emergency, being emerges.ÓÑfrom The

Richard Polt is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University, Cincinnati.