1st Edition

Heidegger and the Political

By Miguel de Beistegui Copyright 1998
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Recent studies of Heidegger's involvement with National Socialism have often presented Heidegger's philosophy as a forerunner to his political involvement. This has occured often to the detriment of the highly complex nature of Heidegger's relation to the political. Heidegger and the Political redresses this imbalance and is one of the first books to critically assess Heidegger's relation to... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Bordering on Politics; Chapter 2 Archaic Politics; Chapter 3 After Politics; Chapter 4 The Free Use of the National; Chapter 5 Before Politics; Chapter 6 And into Silence …; Three Concluding Questions; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Biography

Miguel de Beistegui is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick.