Martin Heidegger is one of the most important as well as one of the most
difficult thinkers of the last century. His masterpiece Being and Time
has been described as the most profound turning point in German
philosophy since Hegel. Raymond Tallis, who has been arguing with
Heidegger for over thirty years, illuminates his fundamental ideas
through an imaginary conversation, which is both relaxed and rigorous,
witty and profound. The Conversation defines Heidegger's relevance to
the philosophical agenda of the present century by illuminating his
great contribution to our thinking about what it is to be a human being
while identifying the weaknesses in his thought.