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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Series:

Studies in Continental thought.

Studies in Continental thought

Standardized Title:

Feldweg-Gespräche (1944/45). English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imaginary conversations.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

English ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

'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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613626264

9781280596438

1280596430

9780253004390

025300439X

OCLC:

678509051