Martin Heidegger: A Political Life

Table of contents

• Martin Heidegger *
• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Introduction *
• Part One - Indications *
• First Indication: 'The Voice of the Poet from His Tower' *
• Second Indication: the Perpetual Advent *
• Third Indication: Dialogue without Communication *
• Part Two 'the Struggle with the Faith of My Birth' *
• From Messkirch to Freiburg *
• The Student of Theology: Early Works *
• The Enforced Termination of Heidegger's Theological Studies and the Start of His Academic Career as a Philosopher *
• The Break with 'The System of Catholicism' *
• The Marburg Years 1923-1928 *
• Part Three 'the Failure of the Rectorship' *
• 'National Socialism: Germany's Preordained Path' *
• How Heidegger Became Rector *
• The Curious Yearning for Hardness and Rigour *
• Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger a Personal and Political Profile *
• The Rector's Dilemma: Caught between Scylla and Charybdis *
• The Case of Hermann Staudinger or 'Operation Sternheim' - A Classic Example of Collaboration within the National Socialist Cadre of University Teachers *
• The 'Academic Summer Camp' Project *
• The Turning-Point of the Rectorship *
• Part Four - Heidegger's Career after the Rectorship *
• Return from Syracuse *
• What Is Man? *
• Philosophy Derided, Or: What Is Humanism? *
• After the War, the Void *
• Part Five - The Post-War Years: Heidegger under Scrutiny *
• Coming to Terms with the Political Past *
• The Search for Heidegger's Successor *
• Towards a Rehabilitation of Heidegger *
• Epilogue *
• Afterword to the Second, Revised Edition *
• Notes *
• Bibliography *
• Index *

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