Gadamer, Hans-Georg / Heidegger, Martin: Briefwechsel 1922–1976 und andere DokumenteAus den Nachlässen herausgegeben und kommentiert von Jean Grondin und Mark Michalski
The correspondence between Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) from 1922 to 1976, which has been preserved in relatively complete form, documents the five and a half decades of the personal and philosophical relationship between the two philosophers. Supported by a commentary in which the numerous references to people, texts, circumstances and backgrounds are carefully explored, the reader can follow the development of the initial teacher-student relationship into a close collegial and friendly relationship and participate as a listener in the conversation, in which philosophical and philological questions were touched upon as well as publication and lecture projects, university and appointment matters and personal and family life. Last but not least, this correspondence reflects in a unique way the political events that led from the Weimar Republic through the “Third Reich” to the period of occupation and the young Federal Republic of Germany. The corpus of letters is rounded off by an appendix containing additional revealing documents some of which are published here for the first time, including Heidegger's expert opinion on Gadamer's habilitation thesis and the notes on which Heidegger based his address to Gadamer's last official lecture.
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