Starting with his own several memoirs, Martin Heidegger’s biography has been inscribed in a large number of unreliable texts—fitting, it has been suggested, for his objections to the more stable ...

For Martin Heidegger, truth stood in relation to thinking as a contemplative activity of un-covering the character of Being lost to misrepresentations amassed over time. As these letters reveal, ...

Please join us for a performance of Dora García’s On Reconciliation, a public reading of letters exchanged by German philosophers Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Arendt and Heidegger’s fifty year ...

She caused controversy with books like “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” published in 1963, which grew out of her coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial for The New Yorker. By David Bird Fifty years after her ...

3 Video: JJ Neimann in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN at Marriott Theatre With this ideological foothold established, Heidegger joins the Nazi party shortly after Hitler takes power in 1933. As rector of ...

Can you remain loyal to someone who aligned with the Nazis? Hannah Arendt did – and, in the process, wrote a quiet chapter of German postwar history. This was a relationship that tested the very ...

Fifty years after her death, the German-born political thinker has been enshrined as a prophet for our times. What did she actually say? By Jennifer Szalai It was once considered a virtue. Why do some ...