Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism

Written by a former student of Heidegger, this book examines the relationship between the philosophy and the politics of a celebrated teacher and the allure that Nazism held out for scholars committed to revolutionary nihilism.

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Karl Löwith. Edited by Richard Wolin. Translated by Gary Steiner

Summary

Written by a former student of Heidegger, this book examines the relationship between the philosophy and the politics of a celebrated teacher and the allure that Nazism held out for scholars committed to revolutionary nihilism.

Product details

• Authors: Karl Loewith, Karl Lowith, Karl Löwith
• Assisted by: Richard Wolin (Editor), Wolin Richard (Editor), Gary Steiner (Translation), Steiner Gary (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.04.1998
• EAN: 9780231084079
• ISBN: 978-0-231-08407-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: European Prespectives: A Serie; European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Europe, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Fascism & Nazism, Western philosophy from c 1800, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Biography: historical, political and military, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -