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Country Path Conversations
Martin Heidegger
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Description for Country Path Conversations
Paperback. Translator(s): Davis, Bret W. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 313.
First published in German in 1995, volume 77 of Heidegger's 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, ... Read more
First published in German in 1995, volume 77 of Heidegger's 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253021632
SKU
V9780253021632
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About Martin Heidegger
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).
Reviews for Country Path Conversations
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 ... Read more