Publisher's Synopsis
Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, a thinker whose ideas transformed the nature of philosophy. Existentialism, deconstructionism, Marxism, theology, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, and political theory all reveal his influence.;That Heidegger supported national socialism has long been common knowledge, but the exact nature of the relationship between his philosophy and political commitments has been the subject of a vociferous debate on both sids of tha Atlantic. Refuting arguments that Heidgger's political stance was accidental or adopted under coercion, Tom Rockmore argues that Heidegger's philosophical thought and his Nazism are inseparable, that he turned to National Socialism on the basis of his philosophy, and that his later evolution is largely determined by his continuing commitment to an ideal form of Nazism.
