Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism. (book reviews)

Philosophy East and West, October, 1996

By karl Lowith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

Karl Lowith was one of a number of gifted young German-Jewish students who studied with Martin Heidegger during his years at Marburg. For the most part, these talented Jewish students -- Herbert Marcuse, Hans Jonas, and Hannah Arendt were others -- regarded themselves as fully assimilated Germans. But with Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and the introduction of his racial policies, they found themselves stripped of period for each of these young German-Jewish intellectuals was the fact that Heidegger, their former teacher, fully supported these policies in his capacity as rector of Freinburg University. As a result, in time, each of philosophy that made it possible for him to embrace Nazism. According to...

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