Heidegger's Silence

by Berel Lang

Book Overview

In What Is Called Thinking, Martin Heidegger wrote, Man speaks by being silent. Berel Lang demonstrates that Heidegger's own silence spoke consciously and deliberately in response to what has been called the Jewish Question. Posed simply, the Jewish Question, as it gained currency in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, asked how (or if) the Jews were to live among the nations. The Holocaust radically altered the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080143310X
• ISBN13: 9780801433108
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher