Prof. Dr. Peter Trawny has recently joined the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) as a research fellow. Prof. Peter Trawny holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany). He is founder and director of the Martin Heidegger Institute at the same university. His research focuses on the philosophy of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. He has also edited twelve volumes of the Gesamtausgabe, including Heidegger’s famous “Black Notebooks”.