Martin Heidegger - 'Im Denken unterwegs'

2011-12-14 4

These clips are from a 1975 German documentary on Heidegger by Richard Wisser and Walter Rüdel... Heidegger is seen walking through Freiburg (SW Germany) and also reviewing handwritten manuscripts... his famous Todtnauberg (Black Forest) cottage (Die Hütte) is then shown... here, Heidegger composed many works, including 'Being and Time' ('Sein und Zeit') in the 1920s... the documentary discusses many themes including the relationship of humans to language and Heidegger's underscoring of the 'task of thinking' ... numerous interviews are employed, including one with French philosopher Jean Beaufret who was key in introducing Heidegger to a generation of post World War Two French thinkers... 'Im Denken unterwegs' translates as 'On the way to thinking' - a critical notion for Heidegger in the eventual replacing of traditional, metaphysical thought...