Ponderings VII-XI: Black Notebooks 1938-1939

Through these broad and sprawling notebooks, Heidegger offers fascinating opinions on Holderlin, Nietzsche, Wagner, Wittgenstein, Pascal, and many others. The importance of the Black Notebooks transcends Heidegger's relationship with National Socialism. These personal notebooks contain reflections on technology, art, Christianity, the history of philosophy, and Heidegger's attempt to move beyond that history into another beginning.

Richard Rojcewicz is Scholar-in-Residence in the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University and translator of several works by Heidegger, including the previous volume of the Black Notebooks, Ponderings II-VI, The Beginning of Western Philosophy: Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides, The Event, and (with Daniela Vallega-Neu) Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event). Rojcewicz is author of The Gods and Technology: A Reading of Heidegger.