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Heidegger's children : Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolin, Richard (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Edition:First new paperback printing, with a new preface by the author.
Subjects:
Heidegger, Martin, > 1889-1976 > Influence.
Jewish philosophers > Germany > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: "Todesfuge" and "Todtnauberg"
  • Introduction: Philosophy and family romance
  • The German-Jewish dialogue: way stations of misrecognition
  • Hannah Arendt: Kultur, "thoughtlessness," and polis envy
  • Karl Löwith: the stoic response to modern nihilism
  • Hans Jonas: the philosopher of life
  • Herbert Marcuse: from existential Marxism to left Heideggerianism
  • Arbeit Macht Frei: Heidegger: as philosopher of the German "way"
  • Excursus: Being and Time: a failed masterpiece?
  • Conclusion.