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Book SynopsisTracks the career of Martin Heidegger - one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy - and documents his intimate involvement with Nazism for much of his professional life. This title reveals Heidegger's initial adherence to Hitler's Nazism and his subsequent development of a more personal version of National Socialism.
Trade Review"[Farias'] book includes more concrete information relevant to Heidegger's relations with the Nazis than anything else available, and it is an excellent antidote to the evasive apologetics that are still being published." --Richard Rorty, The New Republic "Fascinating material for a study of a philosopher who would seem to have cooperated eagerly with the false promises of tyranny." --Allen Lacy, The New York Times Book Review "A major work in the controversy over Heidegger's connection with Nazism... it also offers a fascinating look into the academic world of Hitler's Germany." --Choice "The most serious and pointed inquiry ever made of the political activities of Heidegger... One thing is certain...one can never again, after Farias' book, approach Heidegger as we did before... How [has] all modern thought...been able to make the most important philosophy of the century from a philosophy which did not utter a word about genocide? Heidegger, a Nazi? Without doubt." --Robert Maggiori, Liberation "Farias has demonstrated that [Heidegger's] political engagement was even deeper and more enduring than had previously been suspected." --The Times Literary Supplement "The significant achievement of Farias' Heidegger and Nazism is that it established beyond doubt Heidegger's commitment to Nazism and his involvement in the activities of the Nazi regime; it establishes also that the connection between Heidegger's philosophy and Nazism is essential and that it constitutes an inescapable project for further philosophic research." --The Washington Post
Table of ContentsForeword - Tom Rockmore and Joseph Margolis Introduction Part I: From Youth to the Rectorship (1889-1933) 1. Messkirch, Origins, and the Religious Problem 2. The Jesuit Novitiate and the Seminary at Freiburg 3. Abraham a Sancta Clara and Martin Heidegger's First Written Work 4. Heidegger's Contribution to the Akademiker 5. From Freiburg to Marburg Studies at the University of Freiburg * World War I * Martin Heidegger, Teacher of Catholic Philosophy: The Crisis of Modernism and the Break with the Church * Husserl at Freiburg 6. Marburg, Being and Time, and the Various Appointments 7. The Return to Freiburg and the Berlin Temptation Part II: The Rectorate (1933-1934) 8. Heidegger, Rector at Freiburg The German Student Movement and its Avant-Garde Role * The Seizure of Power in the Region of Baden: Freiburg * The Homage to Albert Leo Schlageter 9. The Rector's Address: Its Assumptions and Its Effects 10. Martin Heidegger's Activities as Rector A Case of Political Denunciation * Students and Workers * Lessons on "The Fundamental Question of Philosophy" during the Summer Semester, 1933 11. Heidegger and University Politics in the Third Reich Speeches at Heidelberg and Kiel: Heidegger and the Corporate Associations of University Professors * Heidegger's Speech on the University and the National Socialist State * Heidegger and the Association of German Universities * Heidegger, Krieck, and the Creation of the KADH 12. Support for Hitler and Conflicts with Krieck The Demonstration of German Science of Adolf Hitler * Heidegger is Called to the Universities of Berlin and Munich * Attacks from Ernst Krieck and His Faction 13. The City and the Country: The Return to the Fatherland as a Political Theme 14. The End of the Rectorate Part III: After the Rectorate: From 1934 to the Posthumously Published Interview 15. The Academy and the Professors of the Reich The Declaration of August 1934 * Heidegger and the Academy of Professors of the Reich * Heidegger and the Academy of German Law * Heidegger and the Advanced School for German Politics * Heidegger as Informer 16. Heidegger and the State Ideological Apparatus The Chair at Gottingen * The "Introduction to Metaphysics" Lectures (1935) * An Article by Elfride Heidegger-Petri * The Attitude of the Regime toward Heidegger around 1936 * Writings: "Origin of the Work of Art" and "Ways to Language" * The Philosophical Congresses at Prague (1934) and at Paris * The Lectures on Nietzsche's Philosophy 17. Heidegger and the State Ideological Apparatus (Continued): Rome and Berlin Heidegger at Prague (1940) and at Munich (1941) * Heidegger and Il Duce * Holderlin * Parmenides and Heraclitus (1943-1944) * The End of the War and the Beginning of Polemos * Echoes 18. Return to Abram a Sancta Clara The Spiegel Interview Notes Index
