A chronological consideration of Heidegger's texts that assesses his achievement as a thinker, while pointing to the sources of his political and ethical failure. This work addresses the religious significance of Heidegger's thought.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION: Demythologizing Heidegger1. Aletheia and the Myth of Being2. Heidegger's Kampf: The Difficulty of Life and the Hermeneutics of Facticity3. Sorge and Kardia: The Hermeneutics of Facticity and the Categories of the Heart4. Heidegger's Responsibility: The Myth of Being's Call5. Heidegger's Revolution: The Politics of the Myth of Being6. Heidegger's Essentialism: The Logic of the Mythologic of Being7. Heidegger's Scandal: Thinking and the Essence of the Victim8. Heidegger's Poets9. Heidegger's Gods: From Demythologizing to Remythologizing10. Hyperbolic Justice: Mythologizing Differently with Derrida and Levinas11. Conclusion: Heidegger and the JewgreeksNOTESINDEX

A readable chronological consideration of Heidegger's texts that assesses his achievement as a thinker, while pointing to the sources of his political and ethical failure. Addresses the religious significance of Heidegger's thought.