'Nicolai Hartmann - Heinz Heimsoeth: Correspondence 1921-1950': The correspondence between Nicolai Hartmann (1882-1950), the creator of a 'New Ontology', and the historian of philosophy Heinz Heimsoeth (1886-1975), who became international known with his presentation of the 'Six great themes of occidential metaphysics and the end of the Middle Ages', published here for the first time is intended to contribute to the images of German philosophy in the 'Age of extremes'. The letters presented here are in terms of scope and intensity almost unique among the scholary correspondence of its epoch and shall revise the image which has so far been reduced to a few celebrities like Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer, in a way that increases complexity.

Christian Tilitzki, Wissenschaftshistoriker. Studium der Rechtswissenschaften, Philosophie und Germanistik in Kiel und Berlin, Rechtsanwalt, 1999 Promotion bei Karlfried Gründer und Ernst Nolte an der FU Berlin (Die deutsche Universitätsphilosophie in der Weimarer Republik und im Dritten Reich, Berlin 2002). Weitere Veröffentlichungen u.a. zur Geschichte der Albertus-Universität Königsberg und der Technischen Hochschule Danzig, zur Kant- und Goethe-Rezeption, zu Carl Schmitt, Richard Kroner, Carl August Emge, Friedrich Wolters.