Letters to his Wife: 1915 - 1970
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (851 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0745641369 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Martin HeideggerTranslated by Rupert Glasgow
"Review of Martin Heidegger's "Letters to his Wife"" according to Still Holding Sway. The book is quite interesting about Martin Heidegger personally, both for what it says and what it doesn't say, which is why I wanted to read it.It doesn't cast much light on his philosophy, but then I never expected it to do that.I was wondering about the extent to which his philosophy carried over into his daily activities, and you can tell from the book that it did. He was definitely sincere in his philosophy of Being. His deep attunement to Being (vs beings) in fact shelte
Moreover, here, perhaps for the first time, Heidegger the fallible individual is fully on display. This rich correspondence should be required reading for anyone interested in the vital intersection between biography and the history of ideas.”Richard Wolin, City University of New York“Can a philosopher’s life illuminate his thinking? Heidegger is not encouraging, writing of Aristotle: ‘He was born, worked, and died.’ Yet in these letters to Elfride, his thinking, tribulations and passions bleed together, exploding any such parsimony. They offer privileged access to the i
After reading them one final time, in 1977 she gave the key to this chest to her granddaughter Gertrud Heidegger on condition that she should not open it until after Elfride’s death. The letters he sent her are snapshots of the ups and downs, the crises and everyday minutiae from Heidegger’s life: their engagement, the building of the Cabin at Todtnauberg, the part he played in the two world wars, the difficulties of his early professional career, their financial problems, his dealings with women, and his constant concern with expounding his ideas.Apart from three letters now in the hands of the German Literature Archive in Marbach, Elfride Heidegger kept all of the countless letters and cards from her husband locked away in a wooden chest. 'There is something absolute about the letters between you & me; … The letter is a form of communion of the soul-spirit – … one that is faded & yet unimpeded, complete’, wrote Martin Heidegger to his fiancée Elfride Petri shortly before their wedding. After years spent deciphering, transcribing and ordering the letters with the help of her father and her uncle, Gertrud Heidegger has here made a selection of them available to the public and added a commentary that provides relevant background material.This selection from the many letters written by Martin Heidegger to his wife provides an invaluable insight into their life together, their friends