Heidegger and Marx : a productive dialogue over the language of humanism / Laurence Paul Hemming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemming, Laurence Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Humanism.

Physical Description:

xvii, 308 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx remain two of the most influential thinkers in philosophy, in political science and other social sciences, and in the humanities. Yet there has never been a full-length study in English of the relationship between their ideas, and there has only been one study in German (from 1966). Heidegger and Marx fills this gap and contradicts the widely held assumption that Heidegger had no significant engagement with Marx. Hemming focuses on four related areas of inquiry-Heidegger's reading of Marx; Marx's relation to G. W. F. Hegel; Heidegger's disastrous political involvement with National Socialism; and the significance of Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, and Friedrich Nietzsche for the politics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Heidegger and Marx explores the understanding of political processes, systems, and behavior that animates the works of both thinkers. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: there is no justice in Heidegger or for Marx

Interpretations of Heidegger and Marx

The history of Marx and Heidegger

The history and negation of metaphysics

Logic and dialectic

Metaphysics of the human state

The situation of Germany

The ideology of Germany

Nazism, liberalism, humanism

The Jewish question

Speaking of the essence of man

Production - previously this was called God

The end of humanism

Between men and gods

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-304) and index.

ISBN:

9780810128750

0810128756

OCLC:

781680914