The Heidegger controversy : a critical reader

This anthology is a significant contribution to the debate over the relevance of Martin Heidegger's Nazi ties to the interpretation and evaluation of his philosophical work. Included are a selection of basic documents by Heidegger, essays and letters by Heidegger's colleagues that offer contemporary context and testimony, and interpretive evaluations by Heidegger's heirs and critics in France and Germany.In his new introduction, "Note on a Missing Text," Richard Wolin uses the absence from this edition of an interview with Jacques Derrida as a springboard for examining questions about the nature of authorship and personal responsibility that are at the heart of the book.Richard Wolin is Professor of Modern European Intellectual History and Humanities at Rice University. He is the author of Walter Benjamin, The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger, and The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism and Poststructuralism. Title......Page 1 Copyright......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Preface to the MIT Press Edition: Note on a Missing Text......Page 9 Introduction: "Over the Line": Reflections on Heidegger and National Socialism - Richard Wolin......Page 22 Part I. Texts By Martin Heidegger......Page 44 Introduction......Page 46 1. The Self-Assertion of the German University......Page 50 2. Political Texts, 1933-1934......Page 61 3. Letter to the Rector of Freiburg University, November 4, 1945......Page 82 4. Overcoming Metaphysics (1936-1946)......Page 88 5· "Only a God Can Save Us": Der Spiegel's Interview with Martin Heidegger (1966)......Page 112 Part II. Context and Testimony......Page 138 6. Total Mobilization - Ernst Jünger......Page 140 7. My Last Meeting with Heidegger in Rome, 1936 - Karl Löwith......Page 161 8. Letter to the Freiburg University Denazification Committee, December 22, 1945 - Karl jaspers......Page 165 9. An Exchange of Letters - Herbert Marcuse and Martin Heidegger......Page 173 Part III. Interpretations......Page 186 10. The Political Implications of Heidegger's Existentialism - Karl Löwith......Page 188 11 Martin Heidegger: On the Publication of the Lectures of 1935 - Jürgen Habermas......Page 207 12. Heidegger's Political Self-Understanding - Otto Pöggeler......Page 219 13. Heidegger's Idea of Truth – Ernst Tugendhat......Page 266 14. Back to History: An Interview - Pierre Bourdieu......Page 285 15. French Heidegger Wars - Richard Wolin......Page 293 Bibliography......Page 322

This anthology is a significant contribution to the debate over the relevance of Martin Heidegger's Nazi ties to the interpretation and evaluation of his philosophical work.

Included are a selection of basic documents by Heidegger, essays and letters by Heidegger's colleagues that offer contemporary context and testimony, and interpretive evaluations by Heidegger's heirs and critics in France and Germany.In his new introduction, "Note on a Missing Text," Richard Wolin uses the absence from this edition of an interview with Jacques Derrida as a springboard for examining questions about the nature of authorship and personal responsibility that are at the heart of the book.Richard Wolin is Professor of Modern European Intellectual History and Humanities at Rice University. He is the author of Walter Benjamin, The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger, and The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School,Existentialism and Poststructuralism.

This anthology is a significant contribution to the debate over the relevance of Martin Heidegger's Nazi ties to the interpretation and evaluation of his philosophical work. Included are a selection of basic documents by Heidegger, essays and letters by Heidegger's colleagues that offer contemporary context and testimony, and interpretive evaluations by Heidegger's heirs and critics in France and Germany. In his new introduction, ''Note on a Missing Text,'' Richard Wolin uses the absence from this edition of an interview with Jacques Derrida as a springboard for examining questions about the nature of authorship and personal responsibility that are at the heart of the book. Richard Wolin is Professor of Modern European Intellectual History and Humanities at Rice University. He is the author of Walter Benjamin, The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger, and The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism and Poststructuralism. In his marvelously thorough New York Review of Books essay on "Heidegger and the Nazis," Thomas Sheehan concludes by observing: "One would do well to read nothing of Heidegger's any more without raising political questions. . . . Along with several selections from Heidegger's national socialist days, this work includes later interviews as well as contributions by Lowith, Junger, Jaspers, Marcuse, Habermas and others about his political ideas