Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil

Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil (German: Ein Meister aus Deutschland. Heidegger und seine Zeit) is a 1994 biography about the philosopher Martin Heidegger, written by Rüdiger Safranski. It confronts Heidegger as someone who participated in a particularly German way of studying being, which Heidegger, according to Safranski, pushed further than anyone else, and where incomprehension became a deliberate feature due to a disbelief in the active human mind.^[1] The German title, which means "A Master from Germany", is an allusion to the poem "Todesfuge" by Paul Celan.^[2]

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Title page for Ein Meister aus Deutschland. Heidegger und seine Zeit (1994)
Author	Rüdiger Safranski
Original title	Ein Meister aus Deutschland. Heidegger und seine Zeit
Translator	Ewald Osers
Language	German
Subject	Martin Heidegger
Genre	biography
Publisher	Carl Hanser Verlag
Publication date	1994
Publication place	Germany
Published in English	15 April 1998
Pages	520
ISBN	978-3-446-17874-8
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Richard Rorty reviewed the book for The New York Times and wrote that it manages to display both Heidegger's pettiness and imaginative power. He called it "the first comprehensive biography of the man" and wrote that it supersedes books about Heidegger and Nazism by Victor Farías and Hugo Ott.^[2]

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