Country Path Conversations (Studies in Continental Thought)

By: Martin Heidegger

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Synopsis: The philosopher&’s meditations on nature, technology, and evil, written in the final years of WWII, presented in &“clear and highly readable translation&” (Philosophy in Review). 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, World War II, and the nature of evil. Heidegger also delves into 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 between a teacher and a tower-warden, and the third features a younger man and an older man in a prisoner-of-war camp in Russia, where Heidegger&’s two sons were missing in action. Unique because of their conversational style, this lucid and precise translation of these texts offers insight into the issues that engaged Heidegger&’s wartime and postwar thinking.