[D66] "Only a God Can Save Us": The Spiegel Interview (1966)

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(De reddingsgedachte uit 1966 van Heidegger...)


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Martin Heidegger, "Nur noch ein Gott kann uns retten," Der Spiegel 30 
(Mai, 1976): 193-219. Trans. by W. Richardson as "Only a God Can Save 
Us" in/Heidegger: The Man and the Thinker/(1981), ed. T. Sheehan, pp. 
45-67.
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    "Only a God Can Save Us": The/Spiegel/Interview (1966)

Martin Heidegger

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Although Heidegger was one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth 
century, few such men of his time were criticized more severely or 
resented more bitterly than he. Much of this criticism arose because of 
an association with the Nazis while Rector of the University of 
Freiburg, 1933-34, one that publicly he neither repudiated, justified, 
nor explained. In 1966 the editors of the German news weekly,/Der 
Spiegel/, requested of Heidegger an interview to discuss these issues. 
In granting the interview, which took place on September 23, 1966, 
Heidegger insisted that it remain unpublished during his lifetime. (It 
appeared in/Der Spiegel/on May 31, 1976, five days after his death.) Its 
substance goes far beyond the personal issues involved and rephrases his 
entire philosophical experience. He saw this as an opportunity to 
meditate upon the meaning of Being, particularly under the guise that 
most profoundly characterizes contemporary culture -- labeled by him 
"technicity" (/die Technik/). In these terms the interview takes on the 
quality of a last will and testament.

In the translation which follows I have inserted the pagination of the 
German publication,/Der Spiegel/, Nr. 23 (1976), 193-219, directly into 
the text in brackets. I was assisted in historical matters by the 
researches of Dr. Kurt Maier of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York City.

-- William J. Richardson, S.J.

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