The European Centre for Heidegger Studies is a philosophical centre dedicated to the study of the life and work of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger.

Dr. Alfred Denker is a Heidegger scholar of international renown. He has edited several editions of Heidegger’s books including Band 88 of the Gesamtausgabe (Klostermann), and the latest editions of Heidegger’s Neske volumes from the 1950s under the title “Denkwege” (Klett-Cotta, 2022).

His own works include “Unterwegs in Sein und Zeit” (Klett-Cotta 2011), and “A Historical Dictionary of Heidegger’s Philosophy (Scarecrow Press 2000).

He has edited numerous volumes of Heidegger related books including many of editions of Heidegger’s correspondence such as “Briefwechsel mit den Eltern und Briefe an die Schwester” (with Jörg Heidegger), “Karl Löwith, Briefwechsel 1919-1973”, and “Heinrich Rickert. Briefe und Dokumente 1912-1933” (Klostermann 2001), as well as other works such as “Heidegger und seine Heimat” (with Elsbeth Büchin) (Klett-Cotta 2005), and “Gelassenheit. Heideggers Meßkircher Rede von 1955” (with Holger Zaborowski) (Karl Alber 2014).

He co-founded the Heidegger-Jahrbuch (with Holger Zaborowski) and was formerly the director of the Heidegger Archive in Meßkirch, Germany. He was Director of Centre Philosophique "Les Trois Hiboux" in Pont de Cirou, France, and was director of “PhiloArt” in Normandy, France.

His essays have appeared in many journals and collections of papers, including Meßkircher Heimathefte, Studia Phaenmenologica, Fichte-Studien, The Cambridge Companion to Being and Time, The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, and many more.

A small selection of some of Alfred Denker’s work can be found here.

Louise Shale is a doctoral candidate at the University of Erfurt. Her thesis is an examination of the concept of peace in the lifework of Martin Heidegger.

The European Centre for Heidegger Studies is independent from any university, institution, or political body, and is therefore 100% reliant upon revenue generated from our webinars (and the occasional donation from kind individuals) to keep the centre functioning.

The centre is European insofar as it is based in Europe and run by Europeans. We feel that having a centre with a sense of “place” is important in the modern hyper-connected world. However, everyone, regardless of their nationality (or their gender, sexuality, or ethnicity), are very welcome. We have many participants from North and South America, Southern and Eastern Asia, and are always looking to meet new people!

Our goal is to offer webinars and events with the highest quality Heidegger scholarship. This takes a great deal of time and energy and therefore is a full time job. We receive no external funding and so we are entirely dependent on webinar fees in order to keep the centre and archive running. We do our best to keep the fees as low as possible, and offer various reduced rates to those in financial need. We will never turn away anyone from our webinars for lack of money.

Yes, we do. Formerly we offered more in-person events but we found that in the post-covid world people seem reluctant to travel. However, our archive in Nerja in Southern Spain is now open to visitors. Should enough interest be expressed we would gladly hold more in-person events there, or in other locations around Europe.

Unfortunately, we have recently had a few problems with our email provider. They have now been fixed, and hopefully everything will continue to function as it should. We are very sorry about that.

In 2025, the European Centre for Heidegger Studies managed to open their archive in the Southern Spanish town of Nerja, on the Mediterranean coast. The archive features an extensive collection of works by and about Heidegger, including rare first editions, and a collection of some of Heidegger’s handwritten letters and manuscripts.

Fabulous, please get in touch and we can arrange your visit or longer study-stay.

Yes! We are always happy to meet people with an interest in Heidegger’s life and work, and we have many interesting (and not so interesting) tasks involved with running ECHS that we would love to work with you on.

Great! We not only run a centre for Heidegger Studies, we also love reading and discussing Heidegger. Feel free to send us an email.