Heidegger and Politics: The Ontology of Radical Discontent

In this fresh interpretation of Heidegger, Alexander Duff explains Heidegger's perplexing and highly varied political influence. Heidegger and Politics argues that Heidegger's political import is forecast by fundamental ambiguities about the status of politics in his thought. Duff explores how in Being and Time as well as earlier and later works, Heidegger analyses “everyday” human existence as both irretrievably banal but also supplying our only tenuous path to the deepest questions about ...