PRESENTATION-COPY

HEIDEGGER, MARTIN.

Gelassenheit.

(Tübingen), Neske, (1959). 8vo. Original printed wrappers. 24 pp.

First edition, presentation-copy "Für/ Dr. Helmut Franz/ mit freundlichem Gruss/ Martin Heidegger".

The present work is a speach that Heidegger gave in his home-town Messkirch, in 1955 on the occassion of the 175th birthday of the composer Conradin Kreutzer.For Heidegger, "Gelassenheit" is a way of being in the world which is uniquely different from previous ways - a way which is necessary for modern man.

Helmut Franz was an evangelical theologian who considered himself quite a bit with Heidegger's philosophy. In 1958 the two were at a philosophy conference together, and in 1959 Heidegger presented him with his "Gelassenheit". In 1967 Helmut Franz wrote "Das Denken Heideggers und die Theologie".

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