Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976

Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976 by Petzet, Heinrich Wiegand. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780226664415.

Despite his predominance in twentieth-century philosophy, no intellectual biography of Martin Heidegger has yet appeared. This account of Heideggers personal relations, originally published in German and extensively corrected by the author for this translation, enlarges our understanding of a complex figure. A well-known art historian and an intimate friend of Heideggers, Heinrich Wiegand Petzet provides a rich portrait of Heidegger that is part memoir, part biography, and part cultural history. By recounting chronologically a series of encounters between the two friends from their meeting in 1929 until the philosophers death in 1976, as well as between Heidegger and other contemporaries, Petzet reveals not only new aspects of Heideggers thought and attitudes toward the historical and intellectual events of his time but also the greater cultural and social context in which he articulated his thought.