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Title: not terrible, but terribly overrated
Review: This book is a collection of many separate articles on Heidegger, apparently slapped together under one cover due to the usual academic pressures to publish books. Bernasconi uses a refreshingly direct style, free of preciousness (unlike his colleagues John Sallis and David Krell). For this he deserves our thanks. Unfortunately, the book itself does little to justify Bernasconi's reputation as one of the big guns in contemporary Heidegger studies. Most disappointing is the unconvincing chapter linking Being and Time to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, notable for sloppy argumentation and faux classical erudition.
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