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Informationen zum Autor Martin Woessner is Assistant Professor of History and Society at The City College of New York (CUNY), Center for Worker Education. Klappentext Heidegger in America is a case study in the recent history of transnational intellectual and cultural exchange. It suggests that the reception and dissemination of Heidegger's philosophical writings transformed the intellectual culture of the United States at a time when American influence was itself transforming the world. Zusammenfassung Heidegger in America is a case study in the recent history of transnational intellectual and cultural exchange. It suggests that the reception and dissemination of Heidegger's philosophical writings transformed the intellectual culture of the United States at a time when American influence was itself transforming the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - being here: Heidegger and reception history; Preface; 1. Freiburg bound: the early years of American Heidegger scholarship; 2. Exiles and emissaries: Heidegger's stepchildren in the United States; 3. Nihilism, nothingness, and God: Heidegger and American theology; 4. An officer and a philosopher: J. Glenn Gray and the postwar introduction of Heidegger into American thought; 5. Dasein and das Man: Heidegger and American popular culture; 6. The continental divide: Heidegger between the analytic and continental traditions in American philosophy; 7. Richard Rorty and the riddle of the book that never was; 8. Ethics, technology, and memory: Heidegger and American architecture; 9. Culture wars: Heidegger and the politics of postmodernism; Conclusion - being there: Heidegger and the history of ideas.
