The Crisis of Heidegger: The Problematic Character of the Relation of Philosophy and Politics. Book Review: Sluga H. Heidegger’s Crisis / transl. by V.V. Tselishchev. Moscow: Kanon+, 2025

Abstract

In Heidegger’s Crisis, Hans Sluga explores the issue of the interaction of philosophy and politics. He analyzes the role of German philosophy (with an emphasis on the case of M. Heidegger) in Nazi Germany (1933–1945) and in the preceding years, beginning with the First World War. I present the problem under investigation in the form of a series of questions grouped into the thematic clusters: (1) ethics and epistemology, (2) intellectual and/or moral responsibility, (3) the role of philosophy in politics, (4) philosophical ideas and social change, (5) philosophy and historical context, (6) the silence and inaction of philosophy. These are accompanied by Sluga’s answers, as they can be formulated from reading the work.