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 ...

Their recent publication tells us nothing we didn’t already know, or could easily have inferred, from his biography. German philosopher Martin Heidegger (AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm that you ...

Late last week, German philosophy professor Günter Figal resigned from his post as chair of the Martin Heidegger Society, citing his discomfort with the famed philosopher’s anti-Semitism. According to ...

Over the past 25 years postmodernism has become a major if not dominant force in both popular culture and modern theology. Both liberal and evangelical Christians have embraced postmodern ideas as new ...

“We knew that he had expressed anti-Semitism as private insights, but this shows anti-Semitism tied in to his philosophy,” says Peter Trawny, director of the Martin Heidegger Institute at the U. of ...

Every few years, somebody notices that Martin Heidegger was a Nazi -- and it all starts up again: the polemics, the professions of shock, the critiques of his philosophy’s insidious role in the ...

In “Time of the Magicians,” Wolfram Eilenberger tells the story of four philosophers — Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer and Heidegger — who altered the way we see reality. By John Kaag Wolfram ...

It was in the nature of 19th century German philosophers to tackle the big questions of God, time and being head on. Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was one of the ...