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.
Phenomenological Reviews
This book makes an important contribution to continental philosophy. It should help to focus the debate surrounding Heidegger's relationship to Jews and National Socialism.
Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft (Bloomsbury ... Read moretranslation)
`In this thorough and nuanced examination of Heidegger's Nazism and anti-Semitism, Mahon O'Brien raises the stakes in the Heidegger affaire by confronting the question of how to understand the philosophical work of a man who was deeply compromised with the Third Reich. Unsparing in dissecting Heidegger's darkest convictions and lucid in its evaluation of the philosophy, Heidegger, History and the Holocaust provides the reader with the hermeneutical tools necessary for a judicious and critical reading of Heidegger's thought.'
Thomas Sheehan, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, USA
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