News — Never before in print, an extensive series of letters exchanged by Martin Heidegger and his student Hans-Georg Gadamer, two pivotal figures in 20th century philosophy, are collected in a new German-language by the publishing houses Vittorio Klostermann and Mohr Siebeck.
The 532-page volume is edited by Jean Grondin, a professor of philosophy at Université de Montréal, and Mark Michalski, a professor at the University of Patras, and includes 219 letters written between 1922 and 1976.
The correspondence offers a unique perspective on Heidegger’s and Gadamer’s thinking, their personal relationships and their times. The volume includes 150 pages of explanatory notes and 50 pages of appendices.
Among them are Heidegger’s report on Gadamer’s dissertation in 1929, lectures Heidegger gave in Gadamer’s university classes in the 1960s, and Gadamer's letter of condolence to Heidegger's widow after his death in 1976.
We asked Grondin to tell us more about the book.
Hans-Georg Gadamer/Martin Heidegger: Briefwechsel 1922 bis 1976 und andere Dokumente. Aus den Nachlässen herausgegeben und kommentiert von Jean Grondin und Mark Michalski. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck / Frankfurt a.M.: Vittorio Klostermann, 2024, 532 pages. The first two dozen pages of the book, covering correspondence between 1922 to 1928 and including a table of contents, are available .
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