Vigils and Nocturne

Vigils and Nocturne is the latest English translation of Martin Heidegger's Collected Works. Presenting three of Heidegger's later "Black Notebooks" from the 1950s, this volume chronicles the philosopher's private thoughts and personal observations after the reinstatement of his right to teach in 1949.

In this volume, we see many of Heidegger's fascinating meditations on topics ranging from language, metaphysics, and technology to the turn, the event, and the meaning of Being, as well as contemporary events and concerns: Sputnik, nuclear energy, and the atomic bomb. Heidegger also develops new ways of approaching key concepts in his thinking, particularly focusing on the vigil and the nocturne and a relatively new idea in his work: Ver-Hältnis, or the relation of holding back.

Scott M. Campbell is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Nazareth University in Rochester, New York. He is author of The Early Heidegger's Philosophy of Life and translator of On My Own Publications by Martin Heidegger (IUP, 2024) as well as one of Heidegger's early lecture courses, Basic Problems of Phenomenology: Winter Semester 1919/1920). He resides in Rochester, New York.

David C. Abergel is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at Boston College. He is currently co-translating a selection of essays by Wilhelm Windelband titled Transcendental Philosophy, Value Theory, Philosophy of Culture and is the author of "The Confluence of Authenticity and Inauthenticity in Heidegger's Being and Time" in Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual and "The Three 'Fundamental Deceptions' of Being and Time: Heidegger's Phenomenology Revisited" in Research in Phenomenology. He resides in Los Angeles.

"Campbell and Abergel give us an especially careful translation of these journals that include self-interpretations, thoughts on the history of philosophy, observations on the atomic age, and enigmatic linguistic experiments." - Richard Polt, author of Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties

"This intriguing, fascinating book immerses us in Heidegger's internal deliberations, self-clarifications, and candid remarks about his works and interests. The rigorous, inventive translation embraces the challenge of his claim that his writings are 'absolutely untranslatable.'" - Pol Vandevelde, author of Heidegger and the Romantics: The Literary Invention of Meaning