The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader

Title......Page 1
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface to the MIT Press Edition: Note on a Missing Text......Page 9
Introduction: \"Over the Line\": Reflections on Heidegger and National Socialism - Richard Wolin......Page 22
Part I. Texts By Martin Heidegger......Page 44
Introduction......Page 46
1. The Self-Assertion of the German University......Page 50
2. Political Texts, 1933-1934......Page 61
3. Letter to the Rector of Freiburg University, November 4, 1945......Page 82
4. Overcoming Metaphysics (1936-1946)......Page 88
5· \"Only a God Can Save Us\": Der Spiegel\'s Interview with Martin Heidegger (1966)......Page 112
Part II. Context and Testimony......Page 138
6. Total Mobilization - Ernst Jünger......Page 140
7. My Last Meeting with Heidegger in Rome, 1936 - Karl Löwith......Page 161
8. Letter to the Freiburg University Denazification Committee, December 22, 1945 - Karl jaspers......Page 165
9. An Exchange of Letters - Herbert Marcuse and Martin Heidegger......Page 173
Part III. Interpretations......Page 186
10. The Political Implications of Heidegger\'s Existentialism - Karl Löwith......Page 188
11 Martin Heidegger: On the Publication of the Lectures of 1935 - Jürgen Habermas......Page 207
12. Heidegger\'s Political Self-Understanding - Otto Pöggeler......Page 219
13. Heidegger\'s Idea of Truth – Ernst Tugendhat......Page 266
14. Back to History: An Interview - Pierre Bourdieu......Page 285
15. French Heidegger Wars - Richard Wolin......Page 293
Bibliography......Page 322