On the History and Future of Heidegger’s Literary Estate, with Newly Published Passages on Nazism and Judaism: A Review of Klaus Held’s Marbach-Bericht

Klaus Held’s concise report on the status of Heidegger’s literary estate performs three valuable services: it recounts the history of Heidegger’s unpublished papers and the formation of his Collected Works (Gesamtausgabe, ga); it provides color facsimiles and transcriptions of previously unpublished passages by Heidegger on Nazism and Judaism; and it gives information about philosophical material that will eventually appear outside the framework of the planned 102 volumes of the Collected Works. I will discuss these aspects of the book in what follows. Below, I also reproduce and translate the most relevant portions of what Held calls the newly discovered “problematic passages” in Heidegger’s Nachlass.