German philosopher Martin Heidegger gets a lot of bad press. And for good reason. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazis, he did and said and wrote some nasty things before and after serving as ...

The following is an excerpt from “‘Breaking Bad’ and Philosophy: Badder Living Through Chemistry,” edited by David R. Koepsell and Robert Arp. The book is now available from Open Court Publishing. The ...

Was Martin Heidegger Hitler’s most willing executioner or the 20 th century’s greatest philosopher? Is it possible he was both? Imagine what it takes to answer that question honestly. Heidegger’s ...

Last spring, the Frankfurt-based publisher Vittorio Klostermann released the first three volumes (out of a projected eight) of Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, a philosophical diary that the ...

If I had to rate the best intellectual experiences of my life, choosing the two or three most profound—a tendentious task, but there you are—one of them would be reading Heidegger. I was in my late ...

How many scholarly stakes in the heart will we need before Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), still regarded by some as Germany’s greatest 20th-century philosopher, reaches his final resting place as a ...

The controversy stirred up by the revelations in Evelyn Barish’s new biography of the literary scholar and “deconstructionist” Paul de Man (which Louis Menand recently discussed in the magazine) will, ...