![]() ![]() ![]() It is the first comprehensive biography of the man, and supersedes both Victor Farias's ''Heidegger and Nazism'' and Hugo Ott's ''Martin Heidegger: A Political Life.'' Rüdiger Safranski's evenhanded study, ''Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil'' (in a capable translation by Ewald Osers), is equally successful at illustrating its subject's pettiness and at displaying the vast power You cannot read most of the important philosophers of recent times without taking Heidegger's thought into account. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Michelįoucault, Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas all cut their teeth on those books. But he somehow managed to write books that are as powerful and as original as Spinoza's or Hegel's. Heidegger was a resentful, ungenerous, disloyal and deceitful man. For those who care about philosophy, however, things are not that simple. By RICHARD RORTYĪny people who learn that Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) lied over and over again about his Nazism, and that he did his best to ignore the murder of the European Jews,Ĭonclude that his writings can be neglected. ![]() ![]() One of the greatest Western philosophers was also a Nazi. ![]()
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