Western Library Thought Translation Series · Reply - Martin Heidegger Speaks

Author: [German] Günther Neske
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: The only measure for thinking comes from the thing itself that awaits to be thought. The greatest danger of thinking, however, lies in the fact that, as far as what I see, none of the contemporary thinkers are yet "great" enough to bring thinking directly and in shaping before the things, and thus to take the path of thinking. — Heidegger
In the contemporary world, people are engrossed in economic success and the implementation of ideologies, which is a global danger. Heidegger helps people realize that humans are not merely objects of manipulation. Through his meditative thinking, his famous inquiry into the meaning of things and the reflectivity of human existence, Heidegger successfully discovers the scale on which past and present people have distinguished historical realities and current practices (the referred to). — Richard Wessel