Childhood and school; idealism and materialism - German philosophy in the 19th century; career planning and career problems; the outbreak of World War I - habilitation, war service, and marriage; the triumph of phenomenology - Husserl and Heidegger, father and son; revolution in Germany and the question of being; parting with Catholicism and studying the laws of free fall while falling; Marburg University and Hannah Arendt, the great passion; being and time - what being? what meaning?; the mood of the time - waiting for the great day; a secret principal work - the metaphysics lectures of 1929-30; balance sheets at the end of the republic; the national socialist revolution and collective breakout from the cave; is Heidegger anti-Semitic?; Heidegger's struggle for the purity of the movement; departure from the political scene; the age of ideology and total mobilization -Heidegger beats a retreat; the philosophical diary and philosophical rosary; Heidegger under surveillance; Heidegger faces the denazification committee - barred from university teaching; what do we do when we think?; Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers after the war; Heidegger's other republic; Adorno and Heidegger - from the jargon of authenticity to the authentic jargon of the 1960s; sunset of life.
[A] thoughtful, sensitive and sympathetic biography.--Ray Monk
"Times Literary Supplement "
A superb work of synthesis, the book places Heidegger's thought and
life in the volatile context of 20th-century German and European
politics and philosophy...Although Safranski sees Heidegger as a
towering figure in 20th-century philosophy, this is a "warts and
all" biography. The author leaves no doubt about Heidegger's
self-centeredness, his intellectual arrogance, and his convenient
lapses of memory about his role in the Nazi years. But the book's
primary merit is a superb explication of Heidegger's thought, its
antecedents, and its place in the context of his political and
philosophical times. For an English-speaking audience, Safranski's
treatment is easily the best introduction to Heidegger's complex
philosophy...This [is] an important book, highly recommended for
anyone interested in the history of 20th-century Continental
philosophy and Martin Heidegger's place in it.--Dietrich Orlow
"Boston Sunday Globe "
Rudiger Safranski's evenhanded study, "Martin Heidegger: Between
Good and Evil, " is equally successful at illustrating its
subject's pettiness and at displaying the vast power of his
imagination. 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." It reports many facts
that these books did not, and it offers a detailed account of
Heidegger's intellectual development--relating his twists and
turns, with great skill and remarkable concision, to German
intellectual and political life in the first half of this
century.--Richard Rorty "New York Times Book Review "
This biography of Martin Heidegger is an impressive achievement,
and English-speaking readers are fortunate that it is now available
to them..."Martin Heidegger" is the first comprehensive biography
of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth
century. It offers a detailed view of Heidegger's intellectual
development provided by no previous book, and it gives new
information on his involvement with the Nazis. Given the importance
of Heidegger's thought for many celebrated left-wing thinkers,
including Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, Safranski's careful
consideration of the relation between Heidegger's right-wing
politics and his thought can help readers struggle with the
much-debated question of whether the contemporary leftists of the
postmodern movement are really cultural reactionaries in
disguise...Safranski's biography is both the most authoritative and
the most approachable of the recent Heidegger books.--Carl L.
Bankston III "Magill's Literary Annual "
R u diger Safranski's evenhanded study, Martin Heidegger: Between
Good and Evil, is equally successful at illustrating its subject's
pettiness and at displaying the vast power of his imagination. It
is the first comprehensive biography of the man, and supersedes
both Victor Far i as's Heidegger and Nazism and Hugo Ott's Martin
Heidegger: A Political Life. It reports many facts that these books
did not, and it offers a detailed account of Heidegger's
intellectual development--relating his twists and turns, with great
skill and remarkable concision, to German intellectual and
political life in the first half of this century.
introduction to Heidegger's complex philosophy...This [is] an
important book, highly recommended for anyone interested in the
history of 20th-century Continental philosophy and Martin
Heidegger's place in it.
the most authoritative and the most approachable of the recent
Heidegger books.
German intellectual and political life in the first half of this
century.
ÝA¨ thoughtful, sensitive and sympathetic biography. -- Ray Monk
"Times Literary Supplement"
Ru diger Safranski's evenhanded study, "Martin Heidegger: Between
Good and Evil," is equally successful at illustrating its subject's
pettiness and at displaying the vast power of his imagination. It
is the first comprehensive biography of the man, and supersedes
both Victor Fari as's "Heidegger and Nazism" and Hugo Ott's "Martin
Heidegger: A Political Life." It reports many facts that these
books did not, and it offers a detailed account of Heidegger's
intellectual development--relating his twists and turns, with great
skill and remarkable concision, to German intellectual and
political life in the first half of this century. -- Richard Rorty
"New York Times Book Review"
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