The Author: Howard N. Tuttle is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He received advanced degrees from Harvard University and the University of Vienna, and a Ph.D. in the history of philosophy from Brandeis University. He is the author of Wilhelm Dilthey’s Philosophy of Historical Understanding: A Critical Analysis (1969); The Dawn of Historical Reason: The Historicality of Human Existence in the Thought of Dilthey, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset (Peter Lang, 1994); The Crowd Is Untruth: The Existential Critique of Mass Society in the Thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset (Peter Lang, 1996); and Fire Night: A Story of Pompeii, 79 A.D (1978).