Thomas Stark talks about a distinct Catholic philosopher of the Interwar Period. Aside from being a unique philosopher, Theodor Haecker was a a great translator of both the Danish thinker, Soren Kierkegaard and of Cardinal John Henry Newman. It was perhaps his translation of Newman’s Grammar of Assent that most assisted his conversion to Catholicism in 1921. This talk discusses the life of Haecker, the existentialist character of his very subtle thinking, most importantly represented by his Journal in the Night and Virgil, Father of the West, and his personal bravery. Haecker’s firm opposition to Nazism caused many difficulties in his life in his native Germany.
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