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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 xx, 97 pages ; 19 cm.
Series Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture
Insurrections.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-79) and 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 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.
Contents 1. The Heidegger "Affair" -- Local Disagreement -- Local Disagreement -- Local Disagreement -- 2. About the Uses of the Word Jew -- Local Disagreement -- 3. About Nazism -- 4. Planetary Prose in the German Provinces -- 5. Heidegger's Women -- Hypotheses 1 Barbara Cassin -- Hypotheses 2 Alain Badiou -- 6. Maneuvering and Career -- 7. Couples from France and Germany -- 8. Linguistic Transfiguration.
Subject Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Relations with women.
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Political and social views.
National socialism and philosophy.
Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. (OCoLC)fst00032385
National socialism and philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01033801
Political and social views. (OCoLC)fst01353986
Relations with women. (OCoLC)fst01354410
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
Added Author Cassin, Barbara, author.
Added Title Heidegger. English
ISBN 9780231157964 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231157967 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231157971 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0231157975 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780231542241 (e-book)
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