The perils of a total critique of reason: Rethinking Heidegger's influence

From: Philosophy Today | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Richard Wolin, Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse. Princeton University Press, 2001.

One of the most tormenting realities of contemporary social thought is the fact that many thinkers devoted to the cause of emancipation unwittingly embrace philosophical positions with totalitarian consequences. Another tormenting reality is that thinkers sometimes embrace such positions deliberately. A case in point is Martin Heidegger, whose advocacy of the conceptions of "Volk," "labor," and "historicity" in the early 1930s led to widespread-though far from ...

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