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Martin Heidegger – Between Good & Evil - Hardcover

Safranski, Rudiger

 
9780674387096: Martin Heidegger – Between Good & Evil
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674387090 ISBN 13: 9780674387096
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This is a biography of Martin Heidegger chronicling his rise along with the thought he honed on the way, with its debt to Heraclitus, Plato, and Kant, and its susceptibility to the conservatism that emerged out of Germany's loss in World War I. A chronicle of ideas and personal commitments and betrayals, the author combines accounts of the philosophy with the details of the loves and lapses that tripped this intellectual. It includes coverage of Heidegger's transformation into a propagandist for the National Socialist regime.

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Review

This biography of Martin Heidegger is an impressive achievement, and English-speaking readers are fortunate that it is now available to them..."Martin Heidegger" is the first comprehensive biography of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. It offers a detailed view of Heidegger's intellectual development provided by no previous book, and it gives new information on his involvement with the Nazis. Given the importance of Heidegger's thought for many celebrated left-wing thinkers, including Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, Safranski's careful consideration of the relation between Heidegger's right-wing politics and his thought can help readers struggle with the much-debated question of whether the contemporary leftists of the postmodern movement are really cultural reactionaries in disguise...Safranski's biography is both the most authoritative and the most approachable of the recent Heidegger books.--Carl L. Bankston III "Magill's Literary Annual "

About the Author

Rudiger Safranski studies German, philosophy, and history in Frankfurt and Berlin. He has worked in adult education and was copublisher of the magazine Berlin Hefte. He is also the author of a widely acclaimed biography of E.T.A. Hoffman. Ewald Osers is the distinguished translator of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from German and Czech, including the correspondence of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674387090
ISBN 13 
9780674387096
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
496