About the Author

Reiner Schurmann (1941-93) was a German philosopher. He was born in Amsterdam and lived in Germany, Israel, and France before immigrating to the United States in the 1970s, where he was professor and director of the Department of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of three books on philosophy: Heidegger on Being and Acting, Wandering Joy, and Broken Hegemonies. Michael Heitz is the publisher of Diaphanes and the editor of Diaphanes magazine, based in Zurich and Berlin.