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Heidegger: His Life and His Philosophy
Contributor(s): Badiou, Alain (Author), Cassin, Barbara (Author), Spitzer, Susan (Translator)

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 ISBN: 0231157967     ISBN-13: 9780231157964
Publisher: Columbia University Press
OUR PRICE: $68.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers
- Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2016002657
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and C
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.7" W x 7" L (0.40 lbs) 120 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
Review Citations: Library Journal 09/15/2016 pg. 89
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Badiou, Alain: - Alain Badiou (PhD, Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure) holds the Rene Descartes Chair at the European Graduate School; he also teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the College International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works, including his masterwork, Being and Event (Continuum, 2007), and several Columbia titles, includng Plato's Republic (2013) and Jacques Lacan Past and Present (2016).
 
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