Black Notebooks

The Black Notebooks (German: Schwarze Hefte) are a set of 34 notebooks written by German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) between October 1931 and 1970. Originally a set of small notebooks with black covers in which Heidegger jotted observations (sometimes called "sketches").[1]

Heidegger called the Black Notebooks the “workshop notes” (“Werkstattaufzeichnungen”).[2] One of Heidegger's assistants, Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, said the Notebooks were kept on a table next to Heidegger's bed, and that Heidegger wrote in the notebooks at night before going to sleep.

  1. ^ Jonathan Rée (12 March 2014). "In defence of Heidegger". Prospect. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  2. ^ Moore, Ian. "On the History and Future of Heidegger's Literary Estate, with Newly Published Passages on Nazism and Judaism: Klaus Held's Marbach-Bericht". ResearchGate. ResearchGate GmbH. Retrieved 26 July 2023.