Three Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida

✍ Scribed by David Farrell Krell

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Series: (Studies in Continental Thought)
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In 1974, thirty-year-old philosopher and translator David Farrell Krell began corresponding and meeting with Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Years later, he would meet Jacques Derrida and, through many letters and visits, come to know him well. Drawing on unpublished correspondence and Krell's warmly told personal recollections, Three Encounters presents an intimate and highly insightful look at the lives and ideas of three noted philosophers at the peak of their careers.

Three Encounters offers a chance for readers to encounter these three great philosophers and their ideas, not merely through the lens of their biographies, but as "people" we come to know through their personal correspondence and Krell's recollections. Three Encounters demonstrates the intertwining of thought and lived experience.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Chapter
1. Before the Beginning
Chapter
2. Translating Heidegger
Chapter
3. Meeting Martin Heidegger
Chapter
4. The Debt and the Distance
Chapter
5. Meeting Hannah Arendt
Chapter
6. Arendt with and without Heidegger
Chapter
7. Meeting Jacques Derrida: The Geschlecht Project
Chapter
8. Lifedeath—or, Following the Animals
Chapter
9. Each Time Unique
Chapter
10. Concluding Reflections
Illustrations
Index