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Author Badiou, Alain, author.

Title Heidegger : his life & his philosophy / Alain Badiou & Barbara Cassin ; translated by Susan Spitzer ; introduction by Kenneth Reinhard
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 91 pages)
Series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Insurrections.
Contents 1. The Heidegger "affair" -- 2. About the uses of the word Jew -- 3. About Nazism -- 4. Planetary prose in the German provinces -- 5. Heidegger's women -- 6. Maneuvering and career -- 7. Couples from France and Germany -- 8. Linguistic transfiguration
Summary Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was also a seminal thinker of the Continental tradition and one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. How are we to make sense of this dual life? Should we factor Heidegger's domestic and political associations into our understanding of his thought, or should we treat his intellectual work independently of his abhorrent politics? How does any thinker reconcile the mundane with the ideal or the pursuit of philosophical inquiry with the demands of civic engagement? In Heidegger, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin immerse themselves in the philosopher's correspondence with his wife Elfride to answer these questions as they relate to Heidegger and all thinkers vulnerable to the politics of their times. They focus on Heidegger's tormented relationship with his wife, with Hannah Arendt, and with numerous other women, bringing an unusual level of intimacy to his personal and intellectual worlds
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Relations with women
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 fast
Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976 gnd
Subject National socialism and philosophy.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Philosophers.
National socialism and philosophy
Political and social views
Relations with women
Beziehung
Frau
Nationalsozialismus
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Cassin, Barbara, author.
ISBN 9780231542241
0231542240
Other Titles Heidegger. English