First published in German in 1995, volume 77 of Heideggers Complete Works consists of three imaginary conversations written as World War II was coming to an end. Composed at a crucial moment in history and in Heidegger's own thinking, these conversations present meditations on science and technology; the devastation of nature, the war, and evil; and the possibility of release from representational thinking into a more authentic relation with being and the world. The first conversation involves a scientist, a scholar, and a guide walking together on a country path; the second takes place between a teacher and a tower-warden, and the third features a younger man and an older man in a prisoner-of-war camp in Russia, where Heideggers two sons were missing in action. Unique because of their conversational style, the lucid and precise translation of these texts offers insight into the issues that engaged Heideggers wartime and postwar thinking.
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Bret Ellis . . . provides a thoughtful, clear and highly readable translation of these conversations. He includes key German terms in the text and occasionally provides a brief discussion of the resonances of certain German terms likely to be unfamiliar to even those readers with second language German. His informative introduction places the work in the context of Heidegger's biography and philosophy as well as within the work's social and historical context.
(Philosophy in Review)
Daugiau informacijos
Heidegger's wartime reflections presented in dialogue
Translator's Foreword
1. 'Aķ: A Three-way Conversation on a Country Path between a Scientist, a
Scholar, and a Guide
2. The Teacher Meets the Tower Warden at the Door to the Tower Stairway
3. Evening Conversation: In a Prisoner of War Camp in Russia, between a
Younger and an Older Man
Editor's Afterword
Glossaries
Bret W. Davis is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. He is author of Heidegger and the Will and editor (with Brian Schroeder and Jason Wirth) of Japanese and Continental Philosophy (IUP, 2010).
