Bambach, Charles. Heidegger's Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks.(Book Review)

From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: Schwab, Martin | Copyright information

BAMBACH, Charles. Heidegger's Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. 384 pp. Cloth, $45.00--Another "reckoning" with Heidegger! Bambach's main thesis is that "authochthonic rootedness" (bodenstaendige Verwurzelung) is a "never abandoned ontological myth" (p. 302), it functions as a leading value, and it grounds Heidegger's fundamental ontology and history of being. It survives the turns of Heidegger's philosophical trajectory. ...

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