Mahon O'Brien is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is also the author of Heidegger, History and the Holocaust (2015) and Heidegger and Authenticity: From Resoluteness to Releasement (2013).

As one would expect of a work that performs the task of a scholarly introduction, much of what O’Brien has to say about the details of Heidegger’s writing is cursory or compressed, but this is admirably done. What is most impressive, though, are the occasions where O’Brien is able to offer genuinely subtle and careful readings of a few select passages of Heidegger’s work.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter One: Ways not WorksChapter Two: Early LifeChapter Three: Rumours of the Hidden KingChapter Four: The Hidden King Returns to Freiburg Chapter Five: The 1930s – Politics, Art and PoetryChapter Six: The Nazi RectorChapter Seven: Return from SyracuseChapter Eight: Heidegger AbroadChapter Nine: The Final YearsChapter Ten: Heidegger’s LegacySources

Mahon O'Brien is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is also the author of Heidegger, History and the Holocaust (2015) and Heidegger and Authenticity: From Resoluteness to Releasement (2013).

As one would expect of a work that performs the task of a scholarly introduction, much of what O’Brien has to say about the details of Heidegger’s writing is cursory or compressed, but this is admirably done. What is most impressive, though, are the occasions where O’Brien is able to offer genuinely subtle and careful readings of a few select passages of Heidegger’s work.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter One: Ways not WorksChapter Two: Early LifeChapter Three: Rumours of the Hidden KingChapter Four: The Hidden King Returns to Freiburg Chapter Five: The 1930s – Politics, Art and PoetryChapter Six: The Nazi RectorChapter Seven: Return from SyracuseChapter Eight: Heidegger AbroadChapter Nine: The Final YearsChapter Ten: Heidegger’s LegacySources

Mahon O'Brien is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is also the author of Heidegger, History and the Holocaust (2015) and Heidegger and Authenticity: From Resoluteness to Releasement (2013).

As one would expect of a work that performs the task of a scholarly introduction, much of what O’Brien has to say about the details of Heidegger’s writing is cursory or compressed, but this is admirably done. What is most impressive, though, are the occasions where O’Brien is able to offer genuinely subtle and careful readings of a few select passages of Heidegger’s work.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter One: Ways not WorksChapter Two: Early LifeChapter Three: Rumours of the Hidden KingChapter Four: The Hidden King Returns to Freiburg Chapter Five: The 1930s – Politics, Art and PoetryChapter Six: The Nazi RectorChapter Seven: Return from SyracuseChapter Eight: Heidegger AbroadChapter Nine: The Final YearsChapter Ten: Heidegger’s LegacySources