Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics – The Heidelberg Conference Derrida Gadamer

Heidegger, Philosophy, and PoliticsThe Heidelberg Conference\nAuthor(s): Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Mireille Calle-Gruber, Jeff Fort, Jean-Luc Nancy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823273669, 978-0823273669\nSynopsis\nIn February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger's thought. This event took place in the very amphitheater in which, more than fifty years earlier, Heidegger, as rector of the University of Freiburg and a member of the Nazi Party, had given a speech entitled \""The University in the New Reich.\"" Heidegger's involvement in Nazism has always been, and will remain, an indelible scandal, but what is its real relation to his work and thought? And what are the responsibilities of tho.