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The Politics of Being

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Richard Wolin’s The Politics of Being has played a seminal role in the international debate over the consequences of Heidegger’s Nazism. In this edition, Wolin provides a new preface addressing the...
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Martin Heidegger's ties to Nazism have tarnished his stature as one of the towering figures of twentieth-century philosophy. The publication of the Black Notebooks in 2014, which revealed the full extent of Heidegger's anti-Semitism and enduring sympathy for National Socialism, only inflamed the controversy. Richard Wolin's The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger has played a seminal role in the international debate over the consequences of Heidegger's Nazism. In this edition, the author provides a new preface addressing the effect of the Black Notebooks on our understanding of the relationship between politics and philosophy in Heidegger's work. Building on his pathbreaking interpretation of the philosopher's political thought, Wolin demonstrates that philosophy and politics cannot be disentangled in Heidegger's oeuvre. Völkisch ideological themes suffuse even his most sublime philosophical treatises. Therefore, despite Heidegger's profundity as a thinker, his critique of civilization is saturated with disturbing anti-democratic and anti-Semitic leitmotifs and claims.
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Price: $37.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date: 15 November 2016
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780231179331
Format: Paperback
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PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory

This new edition documents, in ways not previously possible, the extent to which Heidegger's political ideas, and more importantly, his most fundamental philosophical preoccupations – the origins of mathematics, science, and technology – were closely bound up with his anti-Semitism and Nazi beliefs.

Preface to the 2016 Edition
Preface
1. Heidegger and Politics
2. Being and Time as Political Philosophy
3. "To Lead the Leader": Philosophy in the Service of National Socialism
4. "The Inner Truth and Greatness of National Socialism"
5. Technology, Antihumanism, and the Eclipse of Practical Reason
Notes
Bibliography
Index