This book is an important and timely contribution to the debate
concerning the relation between Heidegger's philosophy and his
political affiliations to Nazism. But it is more than that: it is
also a study, by the leading sociologist in France today, of some
of the institutional mechanisms involved in the production of
philosophical discourse.
Drawing on his distinctive methods of analysis, Bourdieu argues
that philosophical discourse - like all discourse - is the result
of an interaction between an expressive drive and the censorship
generated by the social field in which it is produced. Hence, to
understand Heidegger's work, it is necessary to reconstruct the
logic of the philosophical field in early twentieth-century Germany
and its relation to the broader social and political fields of the
Weimar Republic. In this way Bourdieu is able to shed fresh light
on Heidegger's philosophical language and orientation, while
steering clear of the partisan judgements adopted by those critics
who charge him with an apologetics for Nazism or those who seek to
redeem him at any cost.
"The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger "will be of interest
to students and scholars in philosophy, literature, and social and
political theory, as well as to anyone interested in the
controversy surrounding Heidegger and his links with Nazism.
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