Nation Topics - Martin Heidegger | The Nation

With Examined Lives, James Miller offers a serious and readable study of the relationship between philosophy and life conduct.

Raul Hilberg, the first historian to document the banality of Nazi evil, nursed a lifelong grudge against the woman who borrowed from and popularized his work, Hannah Arendt.

In Songs of Experience, Martin Jay examines modern debates over the relationship between theory and the lived world.

Two new books explore the work of philosophers
Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger.

Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism is a political
classic trapped in the era in which it was written.

On October 10, the New York Times published a front-page obituary for French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear.

This book has a past, which begins at least in 1995, when Elzbieta Ettinger brought out a controversial account of the unpublished correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, but p