Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976

Download or read book Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976 written by Heinrich Wiegand Petzet and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his predominance in twentieth-century philosophy, no intellectual biography of Martin Heidegger has yet appeared. This account of Heidegger's personal relations, originally published in German and extensively corrected by the author for this translation, enlarges our understanding of a complex figure. A well-known art historian and an intimate friend of Heidegger's, Heinrich Wiegand Petzet provides a rich portrait of Heidegger that is part memoir, part biography, and part cultural history. By recounting chronologically a series of encounters between the two friends from their meeting in 1929 until the philosopher's death in 1976, as well as between Heidegger and other contemporaries, Petzet reveals not only new aspects of Heidegger's thought and attitudes toward the historical and intellectual events of his time but also the greater cultural and social context in which he articulated his thought.