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Editorial

The Fight for the Soul of Philosophy

by Anja Steinbauer

“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”

This quotation voices a frustration that many great thinkers have expressed in their own ways, from Heraclitus to Nietzsche and beyond. What makes this one special is that it comes from the most controversial of all philosophers, Martin Heidegger. That he was thinking is beyond doubt: he was one of the greatest philosophers the Western tradition has seen, more about that later. He was however, also one of the most flawed.

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