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Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos

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<h4>Harvard University Press, June 2010</h4><h5>By Peter E. Gordon</h5>

Professor of History Peter E. Gordon recreates the Davos, Switzerland, meeting between philosophers Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer, and their divided opinions on those heady questions of what is truth and what it means to be human.

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