REVOLUTIONARY SAINTS

Heideggers connection with Nazism is well known and has been exhaustively debated. But we need to understand better why Heidegger believed National Socialism to be the best cure for the ills of modern society. In this book Christopher Rickey examines the internal logic of Heideggers ideas to explain how they led him to become a powerful critic of liberalism and a Nazi supporter. Key to Rickeys interpretation is the radically antinomian conception of religiosity he finds at the core of Heideggers challenge to modernity. Heidegger responds to the crisis of modernity with a philosophy attuned to the fundamental need for humans to live with the proper stance toward the divine. Inspired by Lutheran and mystical theology, Heidegger outlines an essentially religious conception of authentic human being. Like his radical Lutheran forerunners, Heidegger politicizes the radical strains of Luthers theology to create a potent revolutionary brew