Article: Heidegger's Political Thinking.

Hans Sluga, University of California at Berkeley

Martin Heidegger continues to be a writer of profound fascination to philosophers and those concerned with philosophical matters; but because of his radical challenges to the philosophical tradition and even more because of his political entanglement with the Nazis, he also remains a highly controversial figure. Following a number of recent American authors - notably Reiner Schurmann, Michael Zimmerman, Albert Borgmann, and Hubert Dreyfus - Leslie Paul Thiele and James Ward set out to show in their new books that Heidegger's philosophy can nevertheless be the source of significant political insight.

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