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Theory & Practice

Heidegger’s Black Notebooks: Extreme Silencing

May 15, 2014 • by Thomas Meyer

The Black Notebooks (Die Schwarzen Hefte), containing Martin Heidegger’s assorted thoughts from the 1930s and 40s, throw new light on the self-aggrandizement into totalitarianism of the most German of all philosophers.

The Freiburg professor of philosophy was not yet 50 years old when, in 1937 and 1938, he retraced ...

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