Hans Sluga  
Heidegger's Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany.
Harvard University Press, 1993. First edition. 0674387112  x/285 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x  9.75", is bound in red cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is in excellent condition. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear.
"Starting with Fichte and Nietzsche, whom the Nazis claimed as their intellectual forebears, "Heidegger's Crisis" shows not only how the Nazis exploited philosophical ideas and used philosophers to gain public acceptance, but also how German philosophers, using National Socialism to promote themselves and their own philosophical agendas, played into the hands of the Nazis. Sluga describes the growth, from World War I onward, of a powerful right-wing movement in German philosophy, in which nationalistic, anti-semitic, and antidemocratic ideas flourished. By 1933, representatives of different philosophical traditions were vying to establish their thought as the official philosophy of National Socialism. In this contest, we can see the roots of an intense political struggle between philosophical traditionalists and radicals that would erupt after the Nazi takeover -- and that, because of the Nazis' lack of a coherent ideology, would never be resolved." (From text of dust jacket)