Stifling and stuffy was Martin Heidegger’s verdict on academic life in the mid-1920s. “I have no desire to spend my time with University professors,” he wrote to Karl Jaspers. Heidegger much preferred ...
Last spring, the Frankfurt-based publisher Vittorio Klostermann released the first three volumes (out of a projected eight) of Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, a philosophical diary that the ...