![]() ![]() But the book’s primary merit is a superb explication of Heidegger’s thought, its antecedents, and its place in the context of his political and philosophical times. ![]() ![]() The author leaves no doubt about Heidegger’s self-centeredness, his intellectual arrogance, and his convenient lapses of memory about his role in the Nazi years. “A superb work of synthesis, the book places Heidegger’s thought and life in the volatile context of 20th-century German and European politics and philosophy… Although Safranski sees Heidegger as a towering figure in 20th-century philosophy, this is a ‘warts and all’ biography. ” -Ray Monk, The Times Literary Supplement “ thoughtful, sensitive and sympathetic biography. ” -Richard Rorty, The New York Times Book Review It reports many facts that these books did not, and it offers a detailed account of Heidegger’s intellectual development-relating his twists and turns, with great skill and remarkable concision, to German intellectual and political life in the first half of this century. ![]() It is the first comprehensive biography of the man, and supersedes both Victor Farías’s Heidegger and Nazism and Hugo Ott’s Martin Heidegger: A Political Life. “Rüdiger Safranski’s evenhanded study, Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil, is equally successful at illustrating its subject’s pettiness and at displaying the vast power of his imagination. ![]()
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