... opti-mism either, of course; for the darkening of the world, the fl ight of the gods, the destruction of the earth, the reduc-tion of human beings into a mass, the hatred and mistrust of everything ... body.”7 While acknowledging the merits of these criticisms, the goal of this book is to address the question of why Heidegger may have bypassed an analysis of the body in the fi rst place and where ... “radical” beginning is the manner of being of the res cogitans, more precisely, the meaning of being of the “sum.” (BT, 46)Heidegger attempts to retrieve the forgotten question of being by investigating...