Last spring, the Frankfurt-based publisher Vittorio Klostermann released the first three volumes (out of a projected eight) of Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, a philosophical diary that the ...

It has long been one of the most contentious questions in 20th-century intellectual history: Just how much, and what kind, of a Nazi was ­German philosopher Martin Heidegger ? To his strongest ...

2 Australian filmmakers tour the Danube to unlock the mysteries of one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers What are viewers to make of a three-hour film about the German philosopher Martin ...

University of Tasmania provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is easily the most controversial philosopher in the 20th century. To a large extent this is due ...

The controversy stirred up by the revelations in Evelyn Barish’s new biography of the literary scholar and “deconstructionist” Paul de Man (which Louis Menand recently discussed in the magazine) will, ...

If I had to rate the best intellectual experiences of my life, choosing the two or three most profound—a tendentious task, but there you are—one of them would be reading Heidegger. I was in my late ...

Bret Stephens's designation of Martin Heidegger as "the most significant philosopher of the 20th century" is something of an insult to philosophy and philosophers ("From Chomsky to bin Laden," Global ...