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Book SynopsisHeidegger's connection with Nazism is well known and has been exhaustively debated. Christopher Rickey examines the internal logic of Heidegger's ideas to explain how they led him to become a powerful critic of liberalism and a Nazi supporter.
Trade Review“A strikingly original interpretation of Heidegger’s politics that explores the religious sources of his idiosyncratic vision of National Socialism.”
—Bernard Yack,University of Wisconsin-Madison
“This is an interesting, original, and persuasive text, one of the most thoughtful presentations of Heidegger to be published recently. Highly recommended for academic libraries.”
—R. Severson CHOICE
“Rickey has written one of the most tightly argued and persuasive briefs, as it were, for the case in favor of the unity of Heidegger as political man and primordial thinker of the ‘history of being.’”
—Horst Mewes Perspectives on Politics
“The considerable interest of Rickey's work is to show in detail that Heidegger is not the proto-communitarian he is sometimes described as, but rather a peculiar kind of failed Christian communitarian, loyal not to human beings but to being.”
—Tom Rockmore,Duquesne University
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