Correspondence: 1919–1973

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher and one of the most important European thinkers of the twentieth century. Karl Löwith (1897-1973) was a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg. He was a student of Husserl and Heidegger and authored more than 300 titles. J. Goesser Assaiante is lecturer in language and culture studies at Trinity College. She is the author of Body Language: Corporeality, Subjectivity and Language in JG Hamann and co-translator of Heidegger's Heraclitus. S. Montgomery Ewegen is assistant professor of philosophy and classics at Trinity College. He is the author of Plato’s Cratylus: The Comedy of Language and co-translator of Heidegger's Heraclitus.

Foreword to the Collected Letters of Martin Heidegger / Correspondence: 1919 – 1973 / Supplemental Material / 1. Letter from Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche to Karl Löwith / 2. Heidegger’s assessment of Karl Löwith’s habilitation thesis / 3. Selections from the Italian diary of Karl Löwith / 4. Letter from Ada Löwith-Kremmer to Elfride Heidegger-Petri / 5. List of Heidegger’s lectures in which Löwith took part / Explanatory Notes / Afterword / Index