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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817621503321

Autore

Heidegger Martin <1889-1976.>

Titolo

Country path conversations / / Martin Heidegger ; translated by Bret W. Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-280-59643-0

9786613626264

0-253-00439-X

Edizione

[English ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Studies in Continental thought

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Imaginary conversations

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

'Agchibasíē : a three-way conversation on a country path between a scientist, a scholar, and a guide -- The teacher meets the tower warden at the door to the tower stairway -- Evening conversation : in a prisoner of war camp in Russia, between a younger and an older man.

Sommario/riassunto

First published in German in 1995, volume 77 of Heidegger's Complete Works consists of three imaginary conversations written as World War II was coming to an end. Composed at a crucial moment in history and in Heidegger's own thinking, these conversations present meditations on science and technology; the devastation of nature, the war, and evil; and the possibility of release from representational thinking into a more authentic relation with being and the world. The first conversation involves a scientist, a scholar, and a guide walking together on a country path; the second takes place be