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Article: Bambach, Charles Heidegger's roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks.(Book Review)
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Bambach, Charles Heidegger's Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks Ithaca: Cornell University Press 350 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-4072-6 Publication Date: May 2003
One of the most contentious issues in continental philosophy is Martin Heidegger's attitude towards the Third Reich. Some scholars have argued that Heidegger embraced Nazism, but others have maintained that his association with the movement was fleeting and that his thought was independent. In Heidegger's Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks, Charles Bambach steers a middle course. He contends that Heidegger drew on the ideas of freethinkers such as Friedrich Holderlin and ...