Heidegger Today? Conversations on the Contemporaneity of a Thinking Legacy

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Abstract:For this special issue, consisting entirely of interviews and conversations, we invited scholars whose paths have crossed Heidegger's legacies in various ways to reflect on the endurance and resonances, on the contemporaneity and possible futures of Heidegger's project in today's philosophical and political panorama. As editors, we conducted some of the interviews, individually or together. Other pieces were commissioned, some of them constituting the outcome of conversations between thinkers deeply familiar with each other's work, as student and mentor or as partners in longstanding dialogue. Some of the authors included in this issue nurture a strong sense of indebtedness to Heidegger's work, some take significant distance from his legacy, while others stand in explicit opposition to the Heideggerian project and its afterlives.