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Heidegger, History and the Holocaust
Mahon O´brien
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Description for Heidegger, History and the Holocaust
Paperback. Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; HPCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 308.
Heidegger, History and the Holocaust is an important contribution to the longstanding debate concerning Martin Heidegger's association with National Socialism. Although a difficult topic, this ambitious new work moves the entire debate on the Heidegger controversy forward. Following Being and Time Heidegger expands on his notion of authenticity and related notions such as historicity and discusses the possibility of an authentic Dasein of a people along structurally consistent lines to his account of authenticity in Being and Time. O'Brien argues that the same difficulties which appear to hamstring the early account of authenticity further affect the notion of an authentic Dasein of a people; Heidegger's political myopia in the thirties can thus be attributed to an underlying failure to come to terms with some of the difficulties discussed in this study. O'Brien concedes that Heidegger's philosophy is influenced by its historical period and context but argues that, however inflammatory, Heidegger's rhetoric cannot be simply reduced to crude Nazi jingoism. This book is a genuinely philosophical approach to the Heidegger controversy and a much-needed re-examination of his ideas and influences.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781350007925
SKU
V9781350007925
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About Mahon O´brien
Mahon O'Brien is a Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Heidegger and Authenticity: From Resoluteness to Releasement (Continuum, 2011)
Reviews for Heidegger, History and the Holocaust
O'Brien's work is an important contribution to the growing debate around Heidegger's political and ideological sympathies ... I welcome [his] attempt toward a reconstruction of Heidegger's philosophy.
Phenomenological Reviews
This book makes an important contribution to continental philosophy. It should help to focus the debate surrounding Heidegger's relationship to Jews and National Socialism.
Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft (Bloomsbury translation)
`In this thorough and nuanced examination of Heidegger's Nazism and anti-Semitism, Mahon O'Brien raises the stakes in the Heidegger affaire by confronting the question of how to understand the philosophical work of a man who was deeply compromised with the Third Reich. Unsparing in dissecting Heidegger's darkest convictions and lucid in its evaluation of the philosophy, Heidegger, History and the Holocaust provides the reader with the hermeneutical tools necessary for a judicious and critical reading of Heidegger's thought.'
Thomas Sheehan, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, USA
Phenomenological Reviews
This book makes an important contribution to continental philosophy. It should help to focus the debate surrounding Heidegger's relationship to Jews and National Socialism.
Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft (Bloomsbury translation)
`In this thorough and nuanced examination of Heidegger's Nazism and anti-Semitism, Mahon O'Brien raises the stakes in the Heidegger affaire by confronting the question of how to understand the philosophical work of a man who was deeply compromised with the Third Reich. Unsparing in dissecting Heidegger's darkest convictions and lucid in its evaluation of the philosophy, Heidegger, History and the Holocaust provides the reader with the hermeneutical tools necessary for a judicious and critical reading of Heidegger's thought.'
Thomas Sheehan, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, USA