Timely Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics

by Leslie Paul Thiele

Book Overview

Focusing on the concept of freedom, Leslie Paul Thiele makes Heidegger's philosophical works speak directly to politics in a postmodern world. Neither excusing Heidegger for his political sins nor ignoring their lesson, Thiele nonetheless refrains from polemic in order creatively to engage one of the greatest philosophers of our time. The product of this engagement is a vindication of a democratic and ecological politics firmly grounded in philosophic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691609381
• ISBN13: 9780691609386
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"