The story of German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) and his posthumous reception almost reads like the plot of an airport spy thriller. In Heidegger’s view, this was due to Western philosophy ...

The relationship between Being and particular beings acquires distinct philosophical and spiritual meanings in the thought of ...

Alexander S. Duff traces how Heidegger’s ideas helped shape revolutionary movements hostile to Western liberal democracy.

Martin Heidegger, the much celebrated and much maligned German philosopher, is back in the news. As it turns out, his Naziism and anti-Semitism run far deeper than originally thought (we already knew ...

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Starting with his own several memoirs, Martin Heidegger’s biography has been inscribed in a large number of unreliable texts—fitting, it has been suggested, for his objections to the more stable ...

The philosopher Martin Heidegger is arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th century. He almost singlehandedly (Scheler did too) turned Husserl’s phenomenology into the heart of human being ...

German philosopher Martin Heidegger gets a lot of bad press. And for good reason. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazis, he did and said and wrote some nasty things before and after serving as ...

The more we learn about famed philosopher Martin Heidegger, the clearer the truth becomes. In the world of philosophy, the Nazi beliefs of Martin Heidegger have become a scandal that won’t go away.

Last month saw another flare-up in the ongoing controversy regarding the philosopher Martin Heidegger. The German thinker is Janus-faced. On the one hand, he is lauded by his admirers as the greatest ...