Heidegger left his theological studies and received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Freiburg. His hatred of modernity and its materialistic, bourgeois civilization, its political democracy, its rootless sciences, and its destructive technology would be the animating lifelong conviction of Heidegger's philosophy and politics. As tensions mounted in the church between modernist liberal humanists and orthodox traditionalists, young Heidegger sided strongly with the traditionalists. According to Safranski, Heidegger eventually attached himself to the Nazi movement in part because of its anti-clericalism. The Catholic Church provided the gifted young Martin with financial support from his entrance into the seminary in 1903 until 1916, by which time he found his pledge to preserve the philosophy of St. The story begins in Messkirch, a small town of peasants and craftsmen sharing the prevailing culture of Catholicism, conservatism, devotion to the homeland, anti-Semitism, and hatred of liberalism. Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil is a labor of philosophic devotion, entering so deeply and appreciatively into the thought and sensibility of Heidegger that his faults are found forgivable or are forgiven, and the real world is often well lost.
Now, Rudiger Safranski has written a remarkably detailed full-scale biography.
Who was Heidegger? Ever since Victor Farias linked Germany's preeminent philosopher to Nazism in his biography Heidegger and Nazism (1989), the question has provoked unceasing controversy. MARTIN HEIDEGGER Between Good and Evil By Rudiger Safranski Translated from the German by Ewald Osers Harvard.
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