✍ Scribed by Richard Wolin
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Richard Wolin’s The Politics of Being has played a seminal role in the international debate over the consequences of Heidegger’s Nazism. In this edition, Wolin provides a new preface addressing the effect of the Black Notebooks on our understanding of the relationship between politics and philosophy in Heidegger’s work
CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE 2016 EDITION
PREFACE
ONE. Heidegger and Politics
TWO. Being and Time as Po liti cal Philosophy
Between Philosophy and World- View
The “Historicity” of Being and Time
Authenticity and Decision
The Call of Conscience
A Self- Canceling Social Ontology; The Aporias of “Decisiveness”
“Destiny” or the Incorporation of Dasein Within a Historical Community
THREE. “To Lead the Leader”: Philosophy in the Ser vice of National Socialism
Essential Affl iction and the Impoverishment of Bourgeois Normalcy
From “Active Nihilism” to “Total Mobilization”
The Rektoratsrede or “The Glory and Greatness of the National Awakening”
FOUR. “The Inner Truth and Greatness of National Socialism”
A Politics of Authenticity
The Ontological Vocation of Art
The State as “Work for the Works”
The Equiprimordiality of Truth and Error
A Spiritual Aristocracy of Leader- Creators; Violence as an Ontological Imperative
FIVE. Technology, Antihumanism, and the Eclipse of Practical Reason
Rethinking Nietzsche
Seinsgeschick as a Strategy of Denial
A Philosophy of Heteronomy
The “Leveling Gaze” of Heidegger’s Later Philosophy
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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