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In this fresh interpretation of Heidegger, Alexander Duff explains Heidegger's perplexing and highly varied political influence. He argues that Heidegger's political import is forecast by fundamental ambiguities about the status of politics in his thought. Heidegger and Politics shows the relevance of Heidegger's thought for contemporary evaluations of politics by responding to widespread confusion about the political implications of his work. The book will appeal to researchers and graduate students in political theory, political philosophy, moral philosophy, and intellectual history. In this fresh interpretation of Heidegger, Alexander Duff explains Heidegger's perplexing and highly varied political influence. Heidegger and Politics argues that Heidegger's political import is forecast by fundamental ambiguities about the status of politics in his thought. Duff explores how in Being and Time as well as earlier and later works, Heidegger analyzes 'everyday' human existence as both irretrievably banal but also supplying our only tenuous path to the deepest questions about human life. Heidegger thus points to two irreconcilable attitudes toward politics: either a total and purifying

Author

Alexander S. Duff

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781107081536

Subjects

History, Political Science, Philosophy