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Preface to the 2016 Edition Preface 1. Heidegger and Politics 2. Being and Time as Political Philosophy Between Philosophy and World-View The ""Historicity"" of Being and Time Authenticity and Decision The Call of Conscience A Self-Canceling Social Ontology; The Aporias of ""Decisiveness"" ""Destiny"" or the Incorporation of Dasein Within a Historical Community 3. ""To Lead the Leader"": Philosophy in the Service of National Socialism Essential Affliction and the Impoverishment of Bourgeois Normalcy From ""Active Nihilism"" to ""Total Mobilization"" The Rektoratsrede or ""The Glory and Greatness of the National Awakening"" 4. ""The Inner Truth and Greatness of National Socialism"" A Politics of Authenticity The Ontological Vocation of Art The State as ""Work for the Works"" The Equiprimordiality of Truth and Error A Spiritual Aristocracy of Leader-Creators; Violence as an Ontological Imperative 5. Technology, Antihumanism, and the Eclipse of Practical ReasonRethinking Nietzsche Seinsgeschick as a Strategy of Denial A Philosophy of Heteronomy The ""Leveling Gaze"" of Heidegger's Later Philosophy Notes Bibliography Index
?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 The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Poststructuralism (1992), The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader (1991), and Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl L with, Hans Jonas, Herbert Marcuse (2001). He is also the editor of Karl L with's Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism (1995).
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. -- Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University 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. -- Robert E Norton, University of Notre Dame ?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. DISSENT ?A splendid book: vigorously argued but at the same time cautious, provocative but at the same time thoroughly responsible and discriminating. -- Klemens von Klemperer The American Historical Review ?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. -- Horst Mewes The American Political Science Review ?[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. -- Paul Thomas Theory and Society ?The most serious and systematic attempt so far to understand the complex and hidden links between Heidegger's philosophy and his politics. -- Michael Lowy Thesis Eleven ?Sophisticated in argument and careful in documentation.? -- Mark Warren The Journal of Politics
