Chronicles the German philosopher's life while exploring his education, schism with the Catholic Church, relationship with the National Socialist revolution, antisemitism, and life and teaching after World War II The story of Heidegger's life and philosophy, a quintessentially German story in which good and evil, brilliance and blindness are inextricably entwined and the passions and disasters of a whole century come into play, is told in this brilliant biography. Preface: A Master from Germany ix Chronology xi Abbreviations xv Translator's Note xix Childhood and School 1(15) Idealism and Materialism: German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century 16(24) Career Planning and Career Problems 40(15) The Outbreak of World War I: Habilitation, War Service, and Marriage 55(16) The Triumph of Phenomenology: Husserl and Heidegger, Father and Son 71(18) Revolution in Germany and the Question of Being 89(18) Parting with Catholicism and Studying the Laws of Free Fall while Falling 107(19) Marburg University and Hannah Arendt, the Great Passion 126(19) Being and Time: What Being? What Meaning? 145(26) The Mood of the Time: Waiting for the Great Day 171(18) A Secret Principal Work: The Metaphysics Lectures of 1929-30 189(13) Balance Sheets at the End of the Republic 202(23) The National Socialist Revolution and Collective Breakout from the Cave 225(23) Is Heidegger Anti-Semitic? 248(16) Heidegger's Struggle for the Purity of the Movement 264(12) Departure from the Political Scene 276(15) The Age of Ideology and Total Mobilization: Heidegger Beats a Retreat 291(16) The Philosophical Diary and Philosophical Rosary 307(11) Heidegger under Surveillance 318(14) Heidegger Faces the Denazification Committee: Barred from University Teaching 332(21) What Do We Do When We Think? 353(17) Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Karl Jaspers after the War 370(20) Heidegger's Other Public 390(17) Adorno and Heidegger: From the Jargon of Authenticity to the Authentic Jargon of the 1960s 407(19) Sunset of Life 426(9) Notes 435(18) Works Cited 453(8) Further Reading 461(4) Index 465