Letters to his Wife: 1915 - 1970

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4135-5

Hardcover

248 pages

September 2008, Polity

Other Available Formats: Paperback

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This book makes available for the first time Martin Heidegger’s letters to his wife Elfride.
Heidegger is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th century.
The letters shed fresh light on Martin Heidegger’s ideas, his personal life, the part he played in the two world wars, his professional career and his relations with other women.
The book also includes a short and extraordinary afterword by Hermann Heidegger, son of Martin and Elfride Heidegger, in which he announces for the first time that at the age of 14 he was told by his mother that his natural father was a friend from her youth, his godfather Friedel Caesar - ‘I’m grateful to my niece for allowing me to make this declaration, in so doing freeing myself from a burden that has weighed upon and tormented me for seventy-one years.’