This volume focuses on Martin Heidegger's relationship, as a person and as a thinker, to the industrialization of death as symbolized by the smokestacks at Auschwitz. The contributors seek a rationale for his postwar silence on the Holocaust and his references to the Extermination.
Alan Milchman teaches in the Department of Political Science at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY).
Alan Rosenberg teaches philosophy at Queens College, CUNY. He is co-editor of ECHOES FROM THE HOLOCAUST: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON A DARK TIME and HEALING THEIR WOUNDS: PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND THEIR FAMILIES.