Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe

Jeff Love is Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University. He is the author of Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008) and The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (2004). He has also published an annotated translation of F. W. J. Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (2006) with Johannes Schmidt

• Introduction: A (Counter-) Revolution Delayed Jeff Love / 1. Russia in the Age of ‘Machenschaft’ Michael Meng / Part I: Influences / 2. Dostoevsky and Heidegger: Eschatological Writer and Eschatological Thinker Horst-Jürgen Gerigk / 3. Tolstoy and Heidegger on the Ways of Being Inessa Medzhibovskaya / 4. Heidegger in Crimea (excerpt) Alexander Kluge / Part II: Philosophical Traces / 5. Patocka and Heidegger in the 1930s and 1940s: History, Finitude and Socrates Josef Moural / 6. The Essence of Truth (aletheia) and the Western Tradition in the Thought of Heidegger and Patocka Vladislav Suvák / 7. Apocalypse of a Polish Soul. On Krzysztof Michalski's Heideggerianism Andrzej Serafin / 8. Heidegger Krzysztof Michalski, Introduced by Ludger Hagedorn and Piotr Kubasiak of the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna / 9. The Ecology of Property: On What Is Heidegger’s and Bibikhin’s Own Michael Marder / Part III: Political Contexts / 10. Heidegger in Communist Czechoslovakia Daniel Kroupa / 11. The Post-Soviet Heidegge

Martin Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe is a most welcome contribution to at least three fields of inquiry. It enriches our understanding of the world-wide reception of Heidegger’s philosophy, adds a dimension to Russian and Eastern European intellectual and cultural history, and provides a vivid case study in “misplaced ideas” (Roberto Schwarz), concepts and imaginaries crossing cultural, linguistic and historical boundaries and changing emphases and valences in the process.