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Published in German as Martin Heidegger Gesamtausgabe 96:

Überlegungen XII–XV (Schwarze Hefte 1939–1941), edited by Peter Trawny
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Names: Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976, author.

Title: Ponderings : Black notebooks / Martin Heidegger ;
translated by Richard Rojcewicz.
Description: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016– |
Series: Studies in Continental thought | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015035416| ISBN 9780253020673 (vol 1
cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253020741 (vol 1 ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976—Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Classification: LCC B3279.H48 S36213 2016 | DDC 193—dc23
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Translator’s Introduction vii

Ponderings XII 1
Ponderings XIII 59
Ponderings XIV 131
Ponderings XV 197

Editor’s Afterword 221