Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies: Catholicism, Revolution, Nazism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300228328)

A portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopher

In this biography of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), now available in English, historian Guillaume Payen synthesizes the connections between the German philosopher's life and work. Critically, but without polemics, he creates a portrait of Heidegger in his time, using all available sources--lectures, letters, and the notorious "black notebooks."

Payen chronicles Heidegger's "changing destinies" after the First World War, an uncompromising Catholicism gave way to a vigorous striving for a philosophical revolution--fertile ground for National Socialism. The book reflects a life of light and shadow. Heidegger was a great philosopher and teacher who cultivated friendships and love affairs with Jews but also was an anti-Semitic nationalist who lamented the "Judaization of German intellectual life."

Author: Guillaume Payen
ISBN-10: 0300228325
ISBN-13: 9780300228328
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2023
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2023