Heidegger and Leibniz

Heidegger holds that our age is dominated by the ambition of reason to possess the world. And he sees in Leibniz the man who formulated the theorem of our modern age: nothing happens without a reason. He calls this attitude `calculating thought'' and opposes to it a kind of thought aimed at preserving the essence of things, which he calls `meditating thought''. Cristin''s book ascribes great ...