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Jean Wahl (1888GÇô1974), once considered by the likes of Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gabriel Marcel to be among the greatest French philosophers, has today nearly been forgotten outside France. Yet his influence on French philosophical thought can hardly be overestimated. Levinas wrote that GÇ£during over a half century of teaching and research, [Wahl] was the life force of the academic, extra-academic, and even, to a degree anti-academic philosophy necessary to a great culture.GÇ¥ And Deleuze, for his part, commented that GÇ£Apart from Sartre, who remained caught none the less in the trap of the verb to be, the most important philosopher in France was Jean Wahl.GÇ¥_x000D_ Besides engaging with the likes of Bataille, Bergson, Deleuze, Derrida, Levinas, Maritain, and Sartre, Wahl also played a significant role, in some cases almost singlehandedly, in introducing French philosophy to movements like existentialism, and American pragmatism and literature, and thinkers like Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, and Heidegger. Yet Wahl was also an original philosopher and poet in his own right. This volume of selections from WahlGÇÖs philosophical writings makes a selection of his most important work available to the English-speaking philosophical community for the first time._x000D_ Jean Wahl was Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, save during World War II, which he spent in the United States, having escaped from the Drancy internment camp. His books to appear in English include The Pluralist Philosophies of England and America (Open Court, 1925), The Philosopher's Way (Oxford UP, 1948), A Short History of Existentialism (Philosophical Library, 1949), and Philosophies of Existence (Schocken, 1969).

Abstract In this article, I analyze Heidegger's marginalia in his personal copy of the 1946 Zurich edition of poems by Georg Trakl, which I discovered several years ago while conducting research in the castle of Heidegger's hometown of Meßkirch. Although Heidegger's marginalia in this volume are not extensive, they are significant for three reasons: they provide valuable insight into his reading of the spirit of Trakl's poetic work and into the place in which Heidegger situates it; they frequently shed light on topics often left in the shadows by Heidegger and his expositors, topics such as (auto)biography, sexual difference, and Christianity; and they bear on Heidegger's lifelong engagement with the status of being and even, at times, seem to call into question his published positions on it.

Ian Moore speaks with Peg Birmingham about the intellectual and personal relationship between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, and more.

[...]it was only after Husserl had heard \"What Is Metaphysics?\" that he undertook to seriously study the writings of his putative protege.12 The inaugural lecture was therefore Heidegger's genuinely public proving ground. [...]to the published version, anxiety is not accompanied by a \"peculiar calm [eigentümliche Ruhe]\" in the original.54 The original version accordingly places more stock in the noncognitive side of anxiety, whereas the published version sees anxiety as already imbued with a degree of theory (at least in the radical sense of \"beholding\" the world). [...]from the outset I for my part rejected as unworthy of you the idea of arranging your \"concerns\" psychologically: as stemming from necessity and a hasty and shortsighted truthfulness. [...]the Compline has become a symbol for you of existence's being-held-out into the night and of the inner necessity of preparing daily for It.74 We have been fundamentally misled in our seeking by the prevailing hustle and bustle and its successes and results-, we suppose that we must produce what is essential and we forget that it can only grow when we live wholly-according to our heart-and that means in view of the night and of evil.

Hacia fines de 1967, poco después de salir de un hospital psiquiátrico, el poeta Paul Celan se interesó por los escritos en alto alemán medio del filósofo, teólogo y místico Meister Eckhart. El compromiso de Celan con Eckhart dio lugar a los tres poemas que concluyen el último volumen de poesía que Celan pudo presentar para su publicación antes de suicidarse en 1970. Así pues, podría decirse que estos tres poemas marcan una cierta culminación de la obra del propio Celan. Esta idea, empero, puede parecer extraña. ¿Cómo se relacionan un dominico alemán de finales de la Edad Media con un poeta judío posholocausto? Celan, que tiende puentes y desafía numerosas tradiciones y lenguas en su actividad poética, se habría sentido atraído por la obra mediadora del corpus eckhartiano. Eckhart es el único teólogo importante de la Edad Media, cuya obra sobrevive sustancialmente tanto en latín como en lengua vernácula, a la vez que combina y transforma movimientos de diversa índole con consumada creatividad y facilidad lingüística: escolástica y misticismo, aristotelismo y neoplatonismo, exégesis maimonídea y metafórica beguina, por nombrar algunos. Sin embargo, a Celan también le perturbaba el concepto central de Eckhart de abegescheidenheit (Abgeschiedenheit, en alemán moderno) o «desasimiento», especialmente en la estela de la Shoah. El objetivo de este artículo es proponer una tentativa acerca de la apropiación creativa de Eckhart por parte de Celan ofreciendo comentarios sobre sus tres poemas eckhartianos. Me centro en los temas de la memoria y el desasimiento, y en cómo Celan se ve compelido a traducir poéticamente, a transmitir, palabras clave o contracifras de una tradición o lengua (en este caso, el misticismo eckhartiano en alto alemán medio) de un modo tal que adquieran sentidos nuevos, radicalmente distintos. Celan desfigura el concepto clave de Eckhart del desasimiento para subrayar la necesidad del encuentro con el Otro.

\"1 We are grateful to Günter Seubold for making his \"Heideggers nachgelassene Klee-Notizen\" and \"'Urbildliches' und 'Ereignis': Die Klee-Interpretation\" available for translation and publication.2 Finally, heartfelt thanks to Carolyn Culbertson, María del Rosario Acosta López, Tobias Keiling, and Yuliya Aleksandrovna Tsutserova for offering their time and expertise in translation, and to Walter Brogan, John Sallis, and Dennis Schmidt for their contributions to this special topic.