Martin Heidegger : Eine politische Biographie
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 279617755
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Schöningh
- ISBN
- 9783506704269
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The 100,000 word monograph published by the respected academic German publisher Schöningh is the product of 6 years of research. It engages with the controversy around Heidegger. Instead of either seeing him as mainly an outstanding philosopher or an ardent supporter of Nazism, it tries to show that he opportunistically adapted to three political systems. This demanded an engagement not only with the extensive and demanding writings of Heidegger as well as the secondary literature on this topic, but also with the political, cultural and intellectual history of Weimar Germany, the Third Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The monograph is a study of Heidegger’s public role from the Weimar Republic to post-war Germany. His ambitions went far beyond academia to revolutionise human existence. Although he is frequently seen as an eternal Nazi, he proved himself to be flexible in adapting to extremely varied political contexts. As a charismatic public voice providing luring visions of ‘new beginnings’, he put forward the concept of an authentically heroic existence in the 1920s, the fight for a nation united in a communal Nazi faith in the 1930s, and the call to respect nature and cherishing the power of Being after 1945.