Martin Heidegger: Bremen and Freiburg lectures: insight into that which is and basic principles of thinking (trans. Andrew J. Mitchell): Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2012, 198 pp, $35.00, ISBN: 9780253002310

In November 1953 after giving his lecture The Question Concerning Technology at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Martin Heidegger wrote in a letter to his wife: Yet the decisive thing isthe fact that a horizon is opening up amongst the young people, one which announces itself from within technology while going beyond it. The genesis of Heideggers now famous essay occurred 4 years earlier, however, during a series of four lectures delivered on the evening of December 1st, 1949 to a semi-private group of wealthy ship brokers, businessmen, and industry leaders at the Club zu Bremen. The December 1949 lecture would mark Heideggers rst public speaking engagement since being made an Emeritus Professor at Freiburg University and the institution of a teaching ban as a result of his afliation with the Nazi party, which, although lifted in 1949, would prevent him from teaching again until the winter semester of 19501951. It was at this prestigious Bremen club, in front of an audience of some of Germanys wealthiest businessmen, that Heidegger, who enjoyed an immense popularity in the free city of Bremen, would express some of his strongest criticisms of technology, modern industrialized society, and commodity culture. These lectures have been translated, for the rst time in their entirety, along with an equally important set of ve lectures delivered in 1957, as the Bremen and Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking and represent the rst complete translation of volume 79 of Heideggers Gesamtausgabe (collected works). The lectures represent an exceptionally important contribution to English language Heidegger scholarship and provide an accessible look into Heideggers later thought through Andrew Mitchells adept translation.