Mahon O'Brien is a Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Heidegger and Authenticity: From Resoluteness to Releasement (Continuum, 2011)

O’Brien’s work is an important contribution to the growing debate around Heidegger’s political and ideological sympathies ... I welcome [his] attempt toward a reconstruction of Heidegger’s philosophy.

• AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One – Re-assessing the ‘Affair’The ‘Affair’ and the rhetorical rules since World War IIHeidegger’s refusal to recantHeidegger’s Remarks on the HolocaustChapter Two – The Essence of Technology and the HolocaustHeidegger’s ‘Agriculture Remark’ as EpigraphThe Holocaust and the ‘Revealing’ Rhetoric of the Final SolutionThe Wannsee Conference ProtocolAuschwitz: Factory of DeathBut Where Have We Strayed to?Chapter Three – Heidegger’s Heritage: Philosophy, Anti-Modernism and Cultural PessimismAdorno and the ‘Jargon’ of German AuthenticityBourdieu and Heidegger’s Ontological PoliticsZimmerman and the ‘Influence’ of SpenglerOswald Spengler – Man and TechnicsErnst JungerTotal MobilizationBodenständigkeit, Gelassenheit and the Memorial AddressChapter Four – The Authentic Dasein of a PeopleHeidegger and the Authentic Dasein of a PeopleFreedom Toward DeathChapter Five – Heidegger and Anti-SemitismNature, History, StateThe Origin of the Work of ArtThe Self Assertion of the German UniversityThe Nazi RectorConclusionBibliographyIndex

Mahon O'Brien is a Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Heidegger and Authenticity: From Resoluteness to Releasement (Continuum, 2011)

O’Brien’s work is an important contribution to the growing debate around Heidegger’s political and ideological sympathies ... I welcome [his] attempt toward a reconstruction of Heidegger’s philosophy.

• AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One – Re-assessing the ‘Affair’The ‘Affair’ and the rhetorical rules since World War IIHeidegger’s refusal to recantHeidegger’s Remarks on the HolocaustChapter Two – The Essence of Technology and the HolocaustHeidegger’s ‘Agriculture Remark’ as EpigraphThe Holocaust and the ‘Revealing’ Rhetoric of the Final SolutionThe Wannsee Conference ProtocolAuschwitz: Factory of DeathBut Where Have We Strayed to?Chapter Three – Heidegger’s Heritage: Philosophy, Anti-Modernism and Cultural PessimismAdorno and the ‘Jargon’ of German AuthenticityBourdieu and Heidegger’s Ontological PoliticsZimmerman and the ‘Influence’ of SpenglerOswald Spengler – Man and TechnicsErnst JungerTotal MobilizationBodenständigkeit, Gelassenheit and the Memorial AddressChapter Four – The Authentic Dasein of a PeopleHeidegger and the Authentic Dasein of a PeopleFreedom Toward DeathChapter Five – Heidegger and Anti-SemitismNature, History, StateThe Origin of the Work of ArtThe Self Assertion of the German UniversityThe Nazi RectorConclusionBibliographyIndex

Mahon O'Brien is a Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Heidegger and Authenticity: From Resoluteness to Releasement (Continuum, 2011)

O’Brien’s work is an important contribution to the growing debate around Heidegger’s political and ideological sympathies ... I welcome [his] attempt toward a reconstruction of Heidegger’s philosophy.

• AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One – Re-assessing the ‘Affair’The ‘Affair’ and the rhetorical rules since World War IIHeidegger’s refusal to recantHeidegger’s Remarks on the HolocaustChapter Two – The Essence of Technology and the HolocaustHeidegger’s ‘Agriculture Remark’ as EpigraphThe Holocaust and the ‘Revealing’ Rhetoric of the Final SolutionThe Wannsee Conference ProtocolAuschwitz: Factory of DeathBut Where Have We Strayed to?Chapter Three – Heidegger’s Heritage: Philosophy, Anti-Modernism and Cultural PessimismAdorno and the ‘Jargon’ of German AuthenticityBourdieu and Heidegger’s Ontological PoliticsZimmerman and the ‘Influence’ of SpenglerOswald Spengler – Man and TechnicsErnst JungerTotal MobilizationBodenständigkeit, Gelassenheit and the Memorial AddressChapter Four – The Authentic Dasein of a PeopleHeidegger and the Authentic Dasein of a PeopleFreedom Toward DeathChapter Five – Heidegger and Anti-SemitismNature, History, StateThe Origin of the Work of ArtThe Self Assertion of the German UniversityThe Nazi RectorConclusionBibliographyIndex