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German Existentialism

The title of this 38 page collection is misleading, since neither Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), nor any other prominent German philosopher, ever wished to be called "existentialist." Grossly incomplete and poorly translated, it seems it had been intended to incite tabloid-like feelings, rather than serve the scholarly community (not to mention its strong cover design). As such, one should avoid it as a serious reference, unless matched with other publications of Heidegger's writing of the same period for accuracy-- the headache avoidable by avoiding this piece, in the first place. Its sole value is in the date of its publication: 1965 -- more than two decades prior to Victor Farias' 1987 *Heidegger et le nazisme* (1989 Eng trans. Paul Burrell and Gabriel R. Ricci, as *Heidegger and Nazism*). While *German Existentialism* was passed unnoticed in the U.S., *Heidegger et la nazisme* brought outrage among Heidegger supporters in Europe (more balanced, sympathetic reactions by Gadamer, Derrida, Levinas, Lowith, and Muller, in addition to Heidegger's own postwar defense, are included in Gunther Neske and Emil Keterring's excellent collection: *Antwort Martin Heidegger im Gesprach;* Eng trans. Lisa Harris and Joachim Neugraoschel, as *Martin Heidegger and National Socialism,* 1990). In view of these and numerous books and journal articles on this topic, this book's sole value, as suggested above, is for its being a forerunner in this language. I have kept a copy in my shelf. It does not occupy much space, after all.

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