WINONA, Minn. — Parvis Emad, 87, a leading scholar and author on the German existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger, died in retirement in Winona. His academic home was DePaul University in Chicago, but his reputation as a Heidegger scholar was global. He founded the journal Heidegger Studies and served as editor until 2015. He was born in 1935 in Iran and doctorate in continental philosophy at the University of Vienna. He co-translated five significant volumes from Heidegger’s complete works. He sole-authored four books and many articles and essays. In his later years, as some memory loss held sway, he always recalled each of his family members, including the beloved nicknames he was famous for creating.
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1935-2023