Confronting Heidegger
A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy
1st Edition
Published on 22. October 2019
304 pages
979-8-8818-5633-5 (ISBN)
Description
The question of the relation of Martin Heidegger's thought to politics has been a subject of controversy since the 1930s, when he became an advocate of the National Socialist regime in Germany. This volume addresses this question in a unique format, as a dialogue among leading Heidegger scholars. That dialogue begins with an exchange between Gregory Fried and Emmanuel Faye about Faye's contention that Heidegger's work represents nothing short of "the introduction of Nazism into philosophy." At stake are issues such as what Heidegger himself understood Nazism to be, whether a thinker's life and actions define the meaning of his work, the enduring threat of fascism, and the nature of rationality and philosophy itself. Richard Polt, Matthew Sharpe, Dieter Thomä, William Altman, and Sidonie Kellerer join the conversation, with responses from Fried and Faye.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
979-8-8818-5633-5 (9798881856335)
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10/2019
Rowman & Littlefield International
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Person
Gregory Fried is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. With Richard Polt he has translated Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics and Being and Truth, and edited A Companion to Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics" and Nature, History, State: 1933-1934.
Content
Introduction, Gregory Fried
Chapter 1: A Letter to Emmanuel Faye, Gregory Fried
Chapter 2: From Polemos to the Extermination of the Enemy, Emmanuel Faye
Chapter 3: Wherewith to Draw Us to the Left and Right...: On Reading Heidegger in the New Millennium, Matthew Sharpe
Chapter 4: Reflecting with Heidegger, William Altman
Chapter 5: Un-Wesen: Tarrying with the Negative in Heidegger's Black Notebooks, Richard Polt
Chapter 6: The Imperative Mode of Heidegger's Thought, National Socialism, and Anti-Semitism, Dieter Thomä
Chapter 7: Philosophy or Messianism?, Sidonie Kellerer
Chapter 8: A Second Letter to Emmanuel Faye, Gregory Fried
Chapter 9: Against Heidegger's "Essential Right": The Humanity Principle, Emmanuel Faye
Index
Chapter 1: A Letter to Emmanuel Faye, Gregory Fried
Chapter 2: From Polemos to the Extermination of the Enemy, Emmanuel Faye
Chapter 3: Wherewith to Draw Us to the Left and Right...: On Reading Heidegger in the New Millennium, Matthew Sharpe
Chapter 4: Reflecting with Heidegger, William Altman
Chapter 5: Un-Wesen: Tarrying with the Negative in Heidegger's Black Notebooks, Richard Polt
Chapter 6: The Imperative Mode of Heidegger's Thought, National Socialism, and Anti-Semitism, Dieter Thomä
Chapter 7: Philosophy or Messianism?, Sidonie Kellerer
Chapter 8: A Second Letter to Emmanuel Faye, Gregory Fried
Chapter 9: Against Heidegger's "Essential Right": The Humanity Principle, Emmanuel Faye
Index
