"The question of the relation of Martin Heidegger's thought to politics has been a subject of controversy since the 1930s, when he became an advocate of the National Socialist regime in Germany. This volume addresses this question in a unique format, as a dialogue among leading Heidegger scholars. That dialogue begins with an exchange between Gregory Fried and Emmanuel Faye about Faye's contention that Heidegger's work represents nothing short of "the introduction of Nazism into philosophy." At stake are issues such as what Heidegger himself understood Nazism to be, whether a thinker's life and actions define the meaning of his work, the enduring threat of fascism, and the nature of rationality and philosophy itself. Richard Polt, Matthew Sharpe, Dieter Thoma, William Altman, and Sidonie Kellerer join the conversation, with responses from Fried and Faye."--.

• Confronting Heidegger
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and a Note on the Text
  • Introduction: Confronting Heidegger: A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy
  • 1 A Letter to Emmanuel Faye
  • 2 From Polemos to the Extermination of the Enemy: Response to the Open Letter of Gregory Fried
  • 3 Wherewith to Draw Us to the Left and Right: On Reading Heidegger in the New Millennium
  • 4 Reflecting with the Heidegger Case
  • 5 Un-wesen: Tarrying with the Negative in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks
  • 6 The Imperative Mode of Heidegger’s Thought, National Socialism, and Anti-Semitism
  • 7 Philosophy or Messianism?
  • 8 A Second Letter to Emmanuel Faye
  • 9 Against Heidegger’s “Essential Right”: The Humanity Principle
  • Index
  • About the Contributors