Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) was a German philosopher.

Further reading

There is a large secondary literature on Heidegger's philosophy. Accessible commentaries on Being and Time include

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• Being-in-the-World by Hubert Dreyfus,
• The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time by Theodore Kisiel, and
• Heidegger and Being and Time by Stephen Mulhall.
• Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy by Reiner Schürmann.

By far the best and most even-handed biography of Heidegger, which also is perhaps the best introduction to his thought, is

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• Rüdiger Safranski's Heidegger. Between Good and Evil

which is the English translation of his Ein Meister aus Deutschland (the title is an allusion to Paul Celan's "Todesfugue").

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More information on the subject of Heidegger's political history can be found in

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• Victor Farías's 1987 book, Heidegger and Nazism.

It should be noted that in many philosophical circles, Farias' arguments are controversial, and many of his conclusions are contested.

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• Dominique Janicaud's The Shadow of That Thought.
• Hans Sluga's book Heidegger's Crisis: Philosophy & Politics in Nazi Germany

gives a fair examination of the relations between philosophy and politics. Similar questions have been taken up from a philosophical perspective by (among others)

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• Derrida in Of Spirit,
• Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe in Typography
• Heidegger, Art, and Politics: The Fiction of the Political trans. Chris Turner (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990) and
• Poetry as Experience,
• Bourdieu in The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger, and
• Lyotard in Heidegger and "the Jews".

Also cited above:

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• Derrida, et al in Penser à Strasbourg
• Lyotard in Political Writings