Martin Heidegger

Between Good and Evil

Rüdiger Safranski

Translated by Ewald Osers

    Preface: A Master from Germany

    Chronology

    Abbreviations

    Translator's Note

    Childhood and School

    Idealism and Materialism: German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century

    Career Planning and Career Problems

    The Outbreak of World War I: Habilitation, War Service, Marriage

    The Triumph of Phenomenology: Husserl and Heidegger, Father and Son

    Revolution in Germany and the Question of Being

    Parting with Catholicism and Studying the Laws of Free Fall while Falling

    Marburg University and Hannah Arendt, the Great Passion

    Being and Time: What Being? What Meaning?

    The Mood of the Time: Waiting for the Great Day

    A Secret Principal Work: The Metaphysics Lectures of 1929-30

    Balance Sheets at the End of the Republic

    The National Socialist Revolution and Collective Breakout from the Cave

    Is Heidegger Anti-Semitic?

    Heidegger's Struggle for the Purity of the Movement

    Departure from the Political Scene

    The Age of Ideology and Total Mobilization: Heidegger Beats a Retreat

    The Philosophical Diary and Philosophical Rosary

    Heidegger under Surveillance

    Heidegger Faces the Denazification Committee: Barred from University Teaching

    What Do We Do When We Think?

    Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Karl Jaspers after the War

    Heidegger's Other Public

    Adorno and Heidegger: From the Jargon of Authenticity to the Authentic Jargon of the 1960s

    Sunset of Life

    Notes

    Works Cited

    Further Reading

    Index

  • Cover: Martin Heidegger
  • A photo of the author

Photo of Rüdiger Safranski: Simone Sassen

Rüdiger Safranski studies German, philosophy, and history in Frankfurt and Berlin. He has worked in adult education and was copublisher of the magazine Berlin Hefte. He is also the author of a widely acclaimed biography of E.T.A. Hoffman.

Ewald Osers is the distinguished translator of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from German and Czech, including the correspondence of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.