Dieter Misgeld is Associate Professor of the Ontario Institute for Studies of Education and the Graduate Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is coeditor of Modern German Sociology with V. Meja and N. Stehr. Graeme Nicholson is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College in Toronto and author of Seeing and Reading and Illustrations of Being.

Editors' Introduction
Translators' Approach
Part I The Philosopher in the University
1. Interview: The German University and German Politics. The Case of Heidegger.
2. On the Primordiality of Science: A Rectoral Address
3. The University of Leipzig, 1409-1959: A Former Rector Commemorates the 550th Anniversary of its Founding
4. The University of Heidelberg and the Birth of Modern Science
5. The Idea of the University-Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Part 2 Hermeneutics, Poetry, and Modern Culture
6. Interview: Writing and the Living Voice
7. Are the Poets Falling Silent?
8. The Verse and the Whole
9. Hö1derlin and George
10. Under the Shadow of Nihilism
11. Interview: Historicism and Romanticism
Part 3 Europe and the Humanities
12. Interview: The 1920s, the 1930s, and the Present:National Socialism, German History, and German Culture
13. The Philosophy and the Religion of Judaism
14. Notes on Planning for the Future
15. The Limitations of the Expert
16. The Future oft he European Humanities
17. Citizens of Two Worlds
18. The Diversity of Europe: Inheritance and Future
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