Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Not just
philosophers but also poets and physicists theologians and painters sociologists and
composers have been inspired by him. Heidegger first entrusted his famous and controversial
book on Kant to the young Vittorio Klostermann when the latter was still publisher at Cohen in
Bonn it was published there in 1929. Beginning with the 1940s Heidegger¿s writings were in
large part published by Vittorio Klostermann. The Holzwege containing some of Heidegger's
seminal essays appeared in 1950 the Wegmarken collecting still more essays in 1968 both
classic and indispensable volumes having been compiled by Heidegger himself. With these
Selected Writings we are delighted to be able to make available five of the most important
books from Heidegger's multifaceted work in an inexpensive slipcase edition in Klostermann Rote
Reihe. In addition to the volumes mentioned it contains the Erläuterungen zu Hölderlins
Dichtung (1944) and the legendary lecture Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik delivered in the
course of the winter semester 1929 30 Heidegger's secret masterpiece (Rüdiger Safranski).
