Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies: Catholicism, Revolution, Nazism

By Guillaume PAYEN

A portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopher

In this biography of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), now available in English, historian Guillaume Payen synthesizes the connections between the German philosopher's life and work. Critically, but without polemics, he creates a portrait of Heidegger in his time, using all available sources--lectures, letters, and the notorious "black notebooks."

Payen chronicles Heidegger's "changing destinies" after the First World War, an uncompromising Catholicism gave way to a vigorous striving for a philosophical revolution--fertile ground for National Socialism. The book reflects a life of light and shadow. Heidegger was a great philosopher and teacher who cultivated friendships and love affairs with Jews but also was an anti-Semitic nationalist who lamented the "Judaization of German intellectual life."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300228325
• ISBN13: 9780300228328
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"