Ted Winslow:
Heidegger doesn't make this division between the heart and the head in his approach to "knowing,* does he? He appears to claim that insight must be mystical. --- Well, he says that representational thinking is historically determined by a particular view of realioty that obscurs its ability to look into certain aspects of the world. The "mystical" stuff is the later Heidegger, who I actually rather like to read, but I also like Meister Eckhart and St. John of the Cross... He also wrote some great exegesis in his later life on Leibniz, Hegel, Plato and the pre-Socratics in order to determine the understanding of reality (that is, Being) that underlay their work. BTW at one time Heidegger was teaching himself Chinese in order to translate the Tao te Ching.
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In the following he makes claims opposite to those of Hegel and Marx about the "inception of history."
--- In the Letter on Humanism, he wrote that Marx's philosophy of history is the profoundest to date. I think that is teh only time he ever mentions Marx though. :) Hegel (and Nietzsche), for Heidegger, represent the fulfillment of Western philosophy (i.e. the final result of having conceived the Ground of Being as itself a being, whether that be form, God, substance, God, absolute Spirit, consciousness or what have you). Sorry if this is Heidegger 101 stuff you already know.