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Authors: Dieter Misgeld (Editor), Graeme Nicholson (Editor), Lawrence Schmidt (Translator), Monica Reuss
ISBN-13: 9780791409190, ISBN-10: 0791409198
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: April 1992
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Dieter Misgeld

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Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction
Translators' Approach
Pt. 1The Philosopher in the University
1Interview: The German University and German Politics. The Case of Heidegger3
2On the Primordiality of Science: A Rectoral Address15
3The University of Leipzig, 1409-1959: A Former Rector Commemorates the 550th Anniversary of its Founding23
4The University of Heidelberg and the Birth of Modern Science37
5The Idea of the University--Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow47
Pt. 2Hermeneutics, Poetry, and Modern Culture
6Interview: Writing and the Living Voice63
7Are the Poets Falling Silent?73
8The Verse and the Whole83
9Holderlin and George93
10Under the Shadow of Nihilism111
11Interview: Historicism and Romanticism125
Pt. 3Europe and the Humanities
12Interview: The 1920s, the 1930s, and the Present: National Socialism, German History, and German Culture135
13The Philosophy and the Religion of Judaism155
14Notes on Planning for the Future165
15The Limitations of the Expert181
16The Future of the European Humanities193
17Citizens of Two Worlds209
18The Diversity of Europe: Inheritance and Future221
Sources237

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