Toward the beginning of 2013, I received reports of passages in theBlack Notebooksthat offered observations on Jewry, or as the case may be, world Jewry. It immediately became clear to me that the publication of theBlack Notebookswould call forth a wide-spread international debate. Already in the Spring of 2013, I had asked Professor Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, last private assistant – and in the words of my grandfather, the “chief co-worker of the complete edition”, – if he might review theNotebooksas a whole, based on his profound insight into the thought of Martin Heidegger,...
Toward the beginning of 2013, I received reports of passages in theBlack Notebooksthat offered observations on Jewry, or as the case may be, world Jew...