• CONTENTS •

Preface to the New Paperback Edition
xi

Preface
xlix

PROLOGUE
“Todesfuge” and “Todtnauberg”

1

ONE
Introduction: Philosophy and Family Romance

5

TWO
The German-Jewish Dialogue: Way Stations of Misrecognition

21

THREE
Hannah Arendt: Kultur, “Thoughtlessness,” and Polis Envy

30

FOUR
Karl Löwith: The Stoic Response to Modern Nihilism

70

FIVE
Hans Jonas: The Philosopher of Life

101

SIX
Herbert Marcuse: From Existential Marxism to Left Heideggerianism

134

SEVEN
Arbeit Macht Frei: Heidegger As Philosopher of the German “Way”

173

EXCURSUS
Being and Time: A Failed Masterpiece?

203

Conclusion
233

Notes
239

Index
271