German philosopher Martin Heidegger gets a lot of bad press. And for good reason. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazis, he did and said and wrote some nasty things before and after serving as ...

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“We knew that he had expressed anti-Semitism as private insights, but this shows anti-Semitism tied in to his philosophy,” says Peter Trawny, director of the Martin Heidegger Institute at the U. of ...

Martin Heidegger, the much celebrated and much maligned German philosopher, is back in the news. As it turns out, his Naziism and anti-Semitism run far deeper than originally thought (we already knew ...

Last month saw another flare-up in the ongoing controversy regarding the philosopher Martin Heidegger. The German thinker is Janus-faced. On the one hand, he is lauded by his admirers as the greatest ...

Starting with his own several memoirs, Martin Heidegger’s biography has been inscribed in a large number of unreliable texts—fitting, it has been suggested, for his objections to the more stable ...

Once discredited by his association with Nazism, Martin Heidegger is enjoying a posthumous revival. So what is it about his ideas that resonate with so many? By Samuel Earle If every philosopher has a ...

Around 1924, the professor seduced his student. He was 35 and married, she was 18 and single. He was an important philosopher and she was a precocious kid, destined for great things herself. He was to ...

Their recent publication tells us nothing we didn’t already know, or could easily have inferred, from his biography. German philosopher Martin Heidegger (AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm that you ...

It was in the nature of 19th century German philosophers to tackle the big questions of God, time and being head on. Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was one of the ...