Publisher's Synopsis
Bernasconi explores, in the context of Heidegger's thought, a number of questions of far-reaching concern. The focus of a number of essays is the relation of Heidegger's own politics to his thought. In addition to this examination of what appears to compromise Heidegger's philosophy, Bernasconi explores its relation to the further possibilities which this thought has opened in the writings of Arendt, Gadamer, Levinas and Derrida.