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 o
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"This book is a thoughtful contribution to recent debates regarding the political dimension of Martin Heidegger's thought. Leslie Paul Thiele, an American political philosopher, looks carefully not only at Heidegger's support for the politics of the Third Reich, but at his call for a freedom which might be at one with the powers of the universe, with the primal elements of Being as such, under the direction of the Nazi Party."--Dalhousie Review
