Interesting tidbit on Heidegger. Gadamer reports in a Century of Philosophy Heidegger said over and over again in his later years: ‘Nietzsche hat mich kaputtgemacht’ – ‘Nietzsche has broken me’.
Here’s another one. Gadamer is speaking.
… I asked him once, ‘Why did you leave your posthumous papers to that national archive in Marbach? After all, one can’t work properly with your things there at all – they don’t have a philosophical library’. ‘Yes, yes’, he said, ‘I know that, of course. I could have left it all to the Freiburg library where I was a professor. But ultimately I found out from my son that they have very deep treasure troves in Marbach where many treasures are buried’. Did there have to be?’ I asked. ‘No’, he replied, ‘but my writings aren’t all that important now’. ‘Apparently not’ I said. ‘No’, he answered, ‘what’s important to me is that we now arrive at a new direction – that humanity achieve a new kind of solidarity’.
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