The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger

Richard Wolin

Published by Columbia University Press 2016

The Politics of Being

The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger

Richard Wolin

https://doi.org/10.7312/woli17932

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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 effect of the Black Notebooks on our understanding of the relationship between politics and philosophy in Heidegger’s work

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Richard Wolin is distinguished professor of political science, history, and comparative literature at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. His books include Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, Herbert Marcuse (2001), Karl Löwith's Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism (1995), and The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader (1991).

Reviews

Mark Warren:
?Sophisticated in argument and careful in documentation.?

Michael Löwy:
?The most serious and systematic attempt so far to understand the complex and hidden links between Heidegger's philosophy and his politics.

Paul Thomas:
?[Wolin's book] moves at once to occupy the high ground of debate—that is to say, Heidegger's own texts—and to throw down the gauntlet to Heidegger's latter-day defenders and apologists Wolin reminds those of us who still need reminding just how prominent is Heidegger's place in the sorry annals of such bad faith.

Horst Mewes:
?A very lucidly written and persuasively argued brief for the claim that Heidegger's involvement with National Socialism 'was rooted in the innermost tendencies of his thought'... Wolin surpasses even Habermas.

Klemens von Klemperer:
?A splendid book: vigorously argued but at the same time cautious, provocative but at the same time thoroughly responsible and discriminating.

?In what may be the best available study of Heidegger's relation to Nazism, Wolin demonstrates that Heidegger's followers fail in their effort to distinguish between his philosophical thought and his political views and deeds. In fact, Heidegger's thought was inextricably combined with his decision to support the Nazis. Although resisting the temptation either to belittle Heidegger's considerable philosophical achievements or reduce them to the status of apologetics of fascism, Wolin nevertheless makes clear that, henceforth, we must read Heidegger's writings with an awareness of their political implications.

Robert E Norton, University of Notre Dame:
Wolin's own style—plain, forceful, explicit—already makes a philosophical, ethical and even political point: that the best way to resist the "seduction" of unreason is to cultivate a language that allows for rational discourse and debate, not to conceal one's intentions behind obfuscation and allusion.

Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University:
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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface to The 2016 Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	liii
One. Heidegger and Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Two. Being and Time as Political Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
Three. “To Lead The Leader”: Philosophy in The Service of National Socialism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Four. “The Inner Truth and Greatness of National Socialism” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Five. Technology, Antihumanism, and The Eclipse of Practical Reason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
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Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition: With a new preface
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 288

eBook

Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9780231543026