Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil

Ruediger Safranski

ISBN 10: 0674387090 / ISBN 13: 9780674387096

Published by Harvard University Press (Cambridge Massachusetts London England), 1998

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"Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil" by Ruediger Safranski. First published in 1994 by Carl Hanser Verlag (Muenchen Wien).

This copy: First English edition. Harvard University Press (Cambridge Massachusetts London England), 1998. Hardcover. xvii, 474 pp.

Binding: Hardcover.
Dust jacket: Present.

Size: 24.0 x 17.0 cm
Language: English

Condition:
Dust jacket: Very Good - minor signs of use.
Body: Very Good.
Binding: Good.
Edges: Good - slight soiling.
Pages: Very Good.
Text: Very Good.
Others: Price on front flap present.

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Presents a biographical account of Martin Heidegger based on the German original published in 1994 and translated into English by Ewald Osers, as indicated on the title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil
• Publisher: Harvard University Press (Cambridge Massachusetts London England)
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674387090
• ISBN 13: 9780674387096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1 kilogram
• Seller catalogs:
  • History
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

One of the century’s greatest philosophers, without whom there would be no Sartre, no Foucault, no Frankfurt School, Martin Heidegger was also a man of great failures and flaws, a Faustus who made a pact with the devil of his time, Adolf Hitler. The story of Heidegger’s life and philosophy, a quintessentially German story in which good and evil, brilliance and blindness are inextricably entwined and the passions and disasters of a whole century come into play, is told in this brilliant biography.

Heidegger grew up in Catholic Germany where, for a chance at pursuing a life of learning, he pledged himself to the priesthood. Soon he turned apostate and sought a university position, which set him on the path to becoming the star of German philosophy in the 1920s. Rüdiger Safranski chronicles Heidegger’s rise along with the thought he honed on the way, with its debt to Heraclitus, Plato, and Kant, and its tragic susceptibility to the conservatism that emerged out of the nightmare of Germany’s loss in World War I. A chronicle of ideas and of personal commitments and betrayals, Safranski’s biography combines clear accounts of the philosophy that won Heidegger eternal renown with the fascinating details of the loves and lapses that tripped up this powerful intellectual.

The best intellectual biography of Heidegger ever written and a best-seller in Germany, Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil does not shy away from full coverage of Heidegger’s shameful transformation into a propagandist for the National Socialist regime; nor does it allow this aspect of his career to obscure his accomplishments. Written by a master of Heidegger’s philosophy, the book is one of the best introductions to the thought and to the life and times of the greatest German philosopher of the century.

About the Authors

Rüdiger Safranski studies German, philosophy, and history in Frankfurt and Berlin. He has worked in adult education and was co-publisher of the magazine Berliner Hefte. He is also the author of a widely acclaimed biography of E. T. A. Hoffman.

Ewald Osers is the distinguished translator of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from German and Czech, including the correspondence of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.