Martin Heidegger

Childhood and school; idealism and materialism - German philosophy in the 19th century; career planning and career problems; the outbreak of World War I - habilitation, war service, and marriage; the triumph of phenomenology - Husserl and Heidegger, father and son; revolution in Germany and the question of being; parting with Catholicism and studying the laws of free fall while falling; Marburg University and Hannah Arendt, the great passion; being and time - what being? what meaning?; the mood of the time - waiting for the great day; a secret principal work - the metaphysics lectures of 1929-30; balance sheets at the end of the republic; the national socialist revolution and collective breakout from the cave; is Heidegger anti-Semitic?; Heidegger's struggle for the purity of the movement; departure from the political scene; the age of ideology and total mobilization -Heidegger beats a retreat; the philosophical diary and philosophical rosary; Heidegger under surveillance; Heidegger faces the denazification committee - barred from university teaching; what do we do when we think?; Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers after the war; Heidegger's other republic; Adorno and Heidegger - from the jargon of authenticity to the authentic jargon of the 1960s; sunset of life.