4 Sessions

Dates: February 22 and 29, 2025

Place: Zoom

Time: 15.30 – 20.00 (CET)

Participation fee: 80 Euro, Patrons 60 Euro, Students 40 Euro

For more information and registration: alfred.denker@yahoo.com

Literature:

Heidegger, Martin. “Letter on ‘Humanism’.” Pathmarks. Cambridge UP, 1998, pp. 239-276.

 Heidegger’s “Letter on ‘Humanism’”  was written to Jean Beaufret, Paris (fall 1946). The text was revised and expanded in a few places for publication. First published together with “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth” by A. Francke A. G. (Bern, 1947). Appeared in 1949 as a separate publication by Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main. Seventh edition published 1974.

- Martin Heidegger -

 The letter on humanism was Heidegger’s first publication after the Second World War. It was of great importance to the Heidegger-reception in France and is the link between Being and Time and his later thinking.

Sunday February 23, 2025

15.30 – 17.30  Session 3         Letter on ‘humanism’, 13-18

17.30 – 18.00  Break

18.00 – 20.00  Session 4         Letter on ‘humanism’, 19-24