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Tallis in Wonderland


Another Conversation with Martin Heidegger?


Raymond Tallis talks about communication problems.


A quarter of a century ago, I published A Conversation with Martin Heidegger (Palgrave, 2002). Though it was issued by a respected academic press, my book was a somewhat eccentric account of the central ideas in Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927), which is generally accepted as his magnum opus. My chapter headings say it all: ‘A Breath of Fresh Air’, ‘Wayfaring’, ‘Darkness in Todtnauberg’, ‘Leaving You and Not Quite Leaving You’, and ‘Sunlight on My Arm’. I also published a few after-ripples of this sustained immersion in Herr Professor’s thought, including The Enduring Legacy of Parmenides: Unthinkable Thought (Bloomsbury, 2007), which was in part prompted by reading Heidegger’s work on pre-Socratic philosophers. After that, the Magician of Messkirch largely disappeared from my intellectual life.


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