Heidegger's Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi GermanyHeidegger's Crisis shows not only how the Nazis exploited philosophical ideas and used philosophers to gain public acceptance, but also how German philosophers played into the hands of the Nazis. Hans Sluga describes the growth, from World War I onward, of a powerful right-wing movement in German philosophy, in which nationalistic, antisemitic, and antidemocratic ideas flourished. |
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Heidegger's crisis: philosophy and politics in Nazi Germany
User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictSluga (philosophy, Univ. of California, Berkeley) provides a synoptic survey of German philosophy in the Nazi era and examines how it relates to the politics of the time. He uses Heidegger's actions ... Read full review

