Martin Heidegger, Heinrich Rickert: Briefwechsel 1912 his 1933 und andere Dokumente.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-04

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Martin Heidegger, Heinrich Rickert: Brief wechsel 1912 his 1933 und andere Dokumente. Ed. by ALFRED DENKER. Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann. 2002. 156 pp. 1224. ISBN 3-465-03148-2 (pbk).

This carefully edited volume contains the entire preserved correspondence between Heidegger and Rickert (one of Rickert's letters to Heidegger and two of Heidegger's are to be considered for ever lost).

A significant part of the exchanges between the two men reflects their inequality in age and rank. Their status-conscious student-professor relationship was to survive into the 1920s, and even after the overall change of tone, following Heidegger's intellectual coming of age, the former pupil would never venture beyond the safely respectful 'Hochverehrter Herr Geheimrat'. Of the forty-three letters published here, thirty-one were written by Heidegger and only twelve by Rickert; what is more, although Heidegger made the first approach in...

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