Martin Heidegger's Changing DestiniesA portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a thinker This is the first major biography, now in English, of Martin Heidegger (18891976) in many years. In his portrait of the philosopher, Guillaume Payen draws on previously untapped sources such as Heideggers personal letters and his notorious Black Notebooks, written between 1930 and 1970. Payen chronicles the developments in Heideggers life as changing destinies, beginning with his upbringing in an