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Author Badiou, Alain, author.

Title Heidegger : his life and his philosophy / Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin ; translated by Susan Spitzer ; introduction by Kenneth Reinhard.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (119 pages).
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Series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Table of Contents ; Introduction, by Kenneth Reinhard; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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 mix? 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 Ba.
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Subject Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Relations with women.
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
Relations with women.
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Political and social views.
Political and social views.
National socialism and philosophy.
National socialism and philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Added Author Cassin, Barbara, author.
Added Title Heidegger. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016006333
Other Form: Print version: 9780231157964 0231157967 (DLC) 2016002657 (OCoLC)940341976
ISBN 9780231542241 (electronic book)
0231542240 (electronic book)
9780231157964 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0231157967 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780231157971 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0231157975 (paperback ; alkaline paper)