Confronting Heidegger - A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Gregory Fried is Professor of Philosophy at Suffolk University, Boston, USA.

Product details

• Assisted by: Gregory Fried (Editor), Fried Gregory (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2019
• EAN: 9781786611918
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-191-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: New Heidegger Research
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism