The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger

Synopsis

Martin Heidegger's overt alliance with the Nazis and the specific relation between this alliance and his philosophical thought―the degree to which his concepts are linked to a thoroughly disreputable set of political beliefs―have been the topic of a storm of recent debate. Written ten years before this debate, this study by France's leading sociologist and cultural theorist is both a precursor of that debate and an analysis of the institutional mechanisms involved in the production of philosophical discourse.