Martin Heidegger is one of the preeminent figures in contemporary philosophy. Like the Romantics, Heidegger recognized in a more radical poetic language about language original._x000D_
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When the song is sung at the beginning, the language is condensed into a few forms, at once new and archaic, which are song and thanks, thought and poetry. Heidegger calls "poetic thoughts." They are a literary genre that he wrote himself throughout his life, in parallel with its production and its specifically philosophical teaching._x000D_
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Along with small poetic prose and long philosophical poems in this volume the reader will find candid letters and first-love romantic poems that Heidegger wrote to his girlfriend and wife, the philosopher poems dedicated to some good friends or a text in tribute to a colleague fallen in the war.