The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader

ISBN 10: 0262731010 / ISBN 13: 9780262731010

Published by The MIT Press, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262731010
• ISBN 13: 9780262731010
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This anthology is a significant contribution to the debate over the relevance of Martin Heidegger's Nazi ties to the interpretation and evaluation of his philosophical work. Included are a selection of basic documents by Heidegger, essays and letters by Heidegger's colleagues that offer contemporary context and testimony, and interpretive evaluations by Heidegger's heirs and critics in France and Germany.In his new introduction, "Note on a Missing Text," Richard Wolin uses the absence from this edition of an interview with Jacques Derrida as a springboard for examining questions about the nature of authorship and personal responsibility that are at the heart of the book.

About the Author

Richard Wolin is Professor of Modern European Intellectual History and Humanities at Rice University. He is the author of Walter Benjamin, The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger, and The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism and Poststructuralism.