"To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume--intriguing, challenging, and often baffling to the reader--call him always to abandon all superficial scanning and to enter wholeheartedly into the serious pursuit of thinking.... "Heidegger is not a 'primitive' or a 'romanitic.' He is not one who seeks escape from the burdens and responsibilities of contemporary life into serenity, either through the re-creating of some idyllic past or through the exalting of some simple experience. Finally, Heidegger is not a foe of technology and science. He neither disdains nor rejects them as though they were only destructive of human life. "The roots of Heidegger's hinking lie deep in the Western philosophical tradition. Yet that thinking is unique in many of its aspects, in its language, and in its leterary expression. In the development of this thought Heidegger has been taught chiefly by the Greeks, by German idealism, by phenomenology, and by the scholastic theological tradition. In him these and other elements have been fused by his genius of sensitivity and intellect into a very individual philosophical expression."--William Lovitt, from the Introduction

本文通过对海德格尔关于此在本真状态，尤其是其对良知与罪责现象的分析中所蕴含的责任概念的阐释，显明了责任之存在论根据在于此在被召唤的存在，而非康德谓之的自我立法主体性，因此，责任就其本源意义而言乃是此在在向存在及存在者的开放中对存在的应答，此一应答界说了个别化的此在，即此在之我性的本真意义，循此线索，本文力图显现海德格尔对存在问题的追问，即其谓之的原伦理学本原性与伦理性。 　　本书以古典伦理学为视角，以海德格尔的亚里士多德释读为发端，以存在论与伦理学之关联为线索，为海德格尔思想重新定位。

本书几乎包含了海德格尔后期思想的所有方面，收集了作者在三、四十年代所创作的六篇重要著作。作者的“存在之真理”和“存在历史观”最为引人注目，特别是海德格尔对西方哲学文化传统的批判和当代技术世界的分析，充分显示出一位思想家应有的稳重、冷静和深度。

《物的追问》的作者是德国当代知名哲学家、二十世纪存在主义哲学的创始人和主要代表马丁·海德格尔（ Martin Heidegger）,在现当代哲学史上，他以其对以康德为代表的德国古典哲学的研究和先验理论的推进著称，《康德和形而上学问题》就是他这方面的代表作。被哲学界称为"康德第二书"的《物的追问：康德先验原理的学说》是他的一部重要作品，虽篇幅不大，却集中体现了其后期的重要思想。比如其中的附录《恩斯特·卡西尔和马丁·海德格尔之间的达沃斯对话》一文，反映的就是当代西方哲学史上一场著名的思想之争，深刻影响着一批后世的知名哲学家。此书的出版为国内哲学界研究存在主义和海德格尔提供了有价值的参考读物。