Martin Heidegger Saved My Life

by Grant Farred

In Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, Grant Farred combines autobiography with philosophical rumination to offer this unusual meditation on American racism. In the fall of 2013 while raking leaves outside his home, Farred experienced a racist encounter: a white woman stopped to ask him, "Would you like another job?" Farred responded, "Only if you can match my Cornell faculty salary." The moment, however, stuck with him. The black man had gravitated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816699364
• ISBN13: 9780816699360
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 6.9"