An article that contains the below very interesting tidbit:
In certain respects, the interest of European
philosophers in the thought of A.N. Whitehead has proven often to be
(after the title of a recent popular movie) a "Fatal Attraction." (I owe
these stories to George Lucas.) In 1956, Professor John E. Smith of
Yale University paid a visit to the venerable Martin Heidegger. Their
conversation lasted for three hours, during which time Heidegger
expressed his passionate interest in turning toward a new, post-Hegelian
pursuit of a philosophy of nature. Smith responded that in America A.N.
Whitehead had already spawned such a movement. Heidegger was most
pleasantly surprised and interested, and expressed a desire to read some
of Whitehead’s philosophy. It was, in fact, at Heidegger’s request that
the tremendous project of translating Process and Reality (PR) was begun at Suhrkamp Verlag (Frankfurt). However, before the translation could be made available to him, Heidegger died.
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