[Review] "Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference", Fordham University Press, 2016.

On the evening of February 5, 1988, at the University of Heidelberg, three of the major and mostinfluential figures of the 20th-century philosophy met in Heidelberg before a large audience. Fifty fiveyears before, in the same lecture hall, Martin Heidegger, as Rector of the University of Freiburg, had givena speech that would be part of the firsts steps towards a running sore, “a wound in thought itself” [ c’est une blessure de la pensée ] in Maurice Blanchot’s words[i], a proper caesura, entitled “Das Universität imneue Reich” [The University in the New Reich]. Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg-Gadamer, and PhilippeLacoue-Labarthe, three unquestionable distinguished Heidegger’s interpreters, came together thatFebruary of 1988 for over two days to discuss the philosophical and political implications of MartinHeidegger’s thought and legacy, under a Gadamer’s sign of hospitality: the encounter took place in thecommon linguistic territory of the French language. Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference , edited by Mireille Calle-Gruber, and translated into English by Jeff Effort, collects the fruitfuldialogues between these three thinkers and their exchanges with the audience during this unforgettabledebate officially entitled “Heidegger: Portée philosophique et politique de sa pensée” [Heidegger:Philosophical and Political Dimensions of his Thought].