Heidegger and the Problem of Evil: Translated into English by Patrick Trompiz and Agata Bielik-Robson (Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas)

This book provides an encompassing and thorough study of Martin Heidegger’s thought. It is not only a presentation but also a profound critique of the thinker’s beliefs. In the context of Heidegger’s cooperation with Nazism, the author reflects on the reasons behind his inability to confront the problem of evil and vulnerability to the threats of totalitarianism. Cover 1 Contents 7 Introduction: The Debate 9 Chapter 1: Meanings 19 1. The Ex-propriation 19 2. Language and Meanings 25 3. The Project of the Fundamental Reform of German University 30 4. The New Claims of Knowledge 39 5. Philosophers Interpreted the World in Many Ways... 47 6. Philosopher and Leader 52 7. The Holy Heart of Nations 58 8. The Nation and Its Tongue 67 9. Heidegger’s Delusion 74 10. The Delusion of Overcoming Metaphysics 79 11. A Strategy for Saving Europe from “Stalinist Bolshevism” 92 Chapter 2: Second Meanings 99 1. On the trails of its own 99 2. The Modalities of the Being of "Dasein" 103 3. Resoluteness and Revolution 112 4. The Question about "Dasein" 119 5. The Essence of Man 125 6. In the Sphere of the "Polis" 132 7. Political Philosophy or the Philosophy of Politics 139 8. The Problem of Historicity 145 9. The Speech of Silence 156 Chapter 3: Sense 167 1. Thinking Being 167 2. Thinking the difference 171 3. Difference and "Dasein" 179 4. Difference and speech 184 5. The Difference as "Austrag" 191 6. The Event of Being 194 7. Metaphysics: The oblivion of Being and of Difference 203 8. Metaphysics as onto-theo-logy 211 9. The question of sense 215 Chapter 4: Nonsense 221 1. "Keiner stirbt für bloße Werte" 221 2. "Sollen" or "Sein?" 227 3. Philosophy and worldview 235 4. "Gott ist tot" 245 5. The overturning of “Platonism” 252 6. "Wertdenken" as the essence of metaphysics 256 7. A retrospective: metaphysics of the will to power and National Socialism 267 8. "Nullmeridian" 275 9. Thinking against values 285 10. Towards evil 290 11. To be “beyond good and evil” 298 The Opening 311 Bibliography 325