Book description
This volume consists of two lecture series given by Heidegger in the
1940s and 1950s. The lectures given in Bremen constitute the first
public lectures Heidegger delivered after World War II, when he was
officially banned from teaching. Here, Heidegger openly resumes
thinking that deeply engaged him with Hölderlin's poetry and themes
developed in his earlier works. In the Freiburg lectures Heidegger
ponders thought itself and freely engages with the German idealists
and Greek thinkers who had provoked him in the past. Andrew J.
Mitchell's translation allows English-speaking readers to explore
important connections with Heidegger's earlier works on language,
logic, and reality.
"This volume represents a major event in English Heidegger
scholarship. Students less acquainted with Heidegger's work will find
entry to his ideas through concrete subject matter. Even for the
general academic reader, the Bremen lectures offer material for
historical and political discussions." -Jerome Veith, Boston College
Andrew J. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory
University. He is translator (with François Raffoul) of Heidegger's
Four Seminars (IUP, 2003).
