The touchstone of these seven original essays is the relationship between polis and praxis&-the public-political space and the political action that maintains and is conditioned by that space. The argument flows from Martin Heidegger's lament in his Letter on Humanism that modern philosophers have failed to understand that the essence of &"action&" is &"accomplishment.&" Dallmayr's lucid essays are a step toward achieving that understanding. Dallmayr...