![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Safranski’s Martin Heidegger affects to walk a path between the ideological condemnations by Farias, Rockmore and Ott, on the one hand, and the apologists like Derrida and Bourdieu on the other. ![]() Quite apart from the discussions of Heidegger’s life is the mountain of criticism and re-publication of his work. On top of the biographies, came the commentaries on the biographies, from such intellectual heavyweights as defenders Jacques Derrida (Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question, 1989), the late Jean François Lyotard (Heidegger and ‘the jews’, 1990), Pierre Bourdieu (The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger, 1991) and critics Luc Ferry and Alain Renault (Heidegger and Modernity, 1990) and Farias’ translator, the American writer on philosophy Tom Rockmore (On Heidegger’s Nazism and Philosophy, 1992). Safranski’s biography of the philosopher Martin Heidegger adds to another volume to the pile that properly begins with the Chilean Victor Farias’ Heidegger and Nazism published in France in 1987, followed by Hugo Ott’s Martin Heidegger: A Political Life in 1994 and Elzbieta Ettinger’s account of the love affair Martin Heidegger – Hannah Arendt in 1995. Rudiger Safranski, Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil, Princeton University Press, £10.95 pbk, 469pp ![]()
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