By Bernard E. Harcourt At the heart of Heidegger’s engagement with Nietzsche lies a profound tension or gap that is, on my reading, insurmountable and unbridgeable: it is the conflict between Heidegger’s conception of being and Nietzsche’s conviction about… Continue Reading
By Babette Babich Being and Time, whatever one thinks about it, is clearly written, especially if one bothers to read it in German but also, provided that is to say that one reads the book slowly, in English translation. And… Continue Reading
By Taylor Carman In the second volume of her Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt suggests that Heidegger’s “turn” (Kehre) from the analytic of Dasein in Being and Time (1927) to the later writings of the 1940s and ’50s occurred… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt We turn first, in Nietzsche 1/13, to the influential lecture series and written manuscripts on Nietzsche that Martin Heidegger delivered and wrote beginning in 1936 at the University of Freiberg and extending throughout the Second World… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The seminar series this year continues a conversation that we began last year in Foucault 13/13, where we explored the thirteen years of lectures delivered by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France—as you recall, thirteen… Continue Reading