The upcoming publication of the Black Notebooks—three never-before-seen volumes by the legendary German philosopher Martin Heidegger—may reveal a direct link between Heidegger’s lengthy dalliance with Nazism and his landmark treatise Being and Time. With the controversial new publication also arises an important question: When it comes to separating an author from his or her ideology and continuin
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