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Article: Heidegger's Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany.
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- The Christian Century
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- May 18, 1994
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By Hans Sluga. Harvard University Press, 285 pp., $29.95.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER, one of the 20th century's most influential philosophers, claimed that Aristotle's biography was insignificant in under-standing that philosopher. This has certainly not rung true for Heidegger himself. Hardly any recent book on Heidegger fails to mention or analyze his activity as rector of Freiburg University during the onset of National Socialism--activity that, in the minds of many, either discredits or diminishes significantly his work as a whole. Was Heidegger a Nazi? Is his philosophy tainted by or even in alignment with Nazism? That these and similar questions are being asked by so ...