David Farrell Krell is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago, and Brauer Distinguished Visiting Professor of German Studies at Brown University, Providence, USA. He is the translator of Heidegger's lectures on Nietzsche, and was the editor of Heidegger's Basic Writings (1977).

preface
acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Let Ourselves Be Cradled
2. Amniotica, a reading of Sándor Ferenczi's Thalassa
3. Fore and Aft-Catastrophe?
4. Full of Gods
5. The Tears of Kronos
6. These Drowning Men Do Drown
7. Waves and Drops of Time
Conclusion