The Politics of Being – The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger (Paper) - Softcover

Wolin, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231073151 ISBN 13: 9780231073158

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This study reconstructs the relationship between philosophy and politics in the way in which Heidegger's failure as a politician influenced the redevelopment of philosophy in the 1930s. The author also explains how Heidegger's failure influenced the content and direction of his later work.

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Review:

For readers still attempting not only to penetrate the enigmatic darkness into which one of our greatest philosophers withdrew but also to understand the politics of National Socialism and gain some insight into its cultural genealogy, [Richard Wolin's] The Politics of Being and The Heidegger Controversy will surely prove to be as illuminating as they are thought provoking and unsettling. I highly recommend them.--David Michael Levin "Political Theory "

An important and valuable contribution to the literature on Heidegger's political thought.--Mitchell Aboulafia "International Studies in Philosophy "

Wolin's important new book is the most definitive treatment in English of the political resonances of Heidegger's destruction of metaphysics.--Choice

From the Back Cover:

For over fifty years the philosophical achievements of Martin Heidegger have been haunted by a devil's bargain struck between the philosopher and the National Socialist movement of the early 1930s. Courageously, Richard Wolin has faced his subject head on ... and has approached his task with impressive learning and ingenuity.... This is a splendid book: vigorously argued but at the same time cautious, provocative but at the same time thoroughly responsible and discriminating.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0231073151
• ISBN 13: 9780231073158
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242