Martin Heidegger (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Hugo Ott
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1889-1976
- Setting: Germany, primarily the vicinity of Freiburg and its university
- Principal Characters: Martin Heidegger, Edmund Russerl, Karl Jaspers
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Socialism, Existentialism, Nazism or Nazis, Colleges or universities, Germany or German people
- Locales: Freiburg, Germany
In 1988, the prominent critic George Steiner announced that “when we look back over the twentieth century the two dominant philosophers will clearly be Wittgenstein and Heidegger.” That the second of these two should also have been one of Adolf Hitler’s most eloquent champions in the early years of the Nazi regime is a very bitter pill for twentieth century intellectuals to swallow. That they should honor so highly the thought of a man who at the prime of his professional and mental life openly embraced a politics and national vision rooted in mayhem and murder seems almost as...
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