Preface to the New Paperback Edition
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PROLOGUE
“Todesfuge” and “Todtnauberg”
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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
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Herbert Marcuse: From Existential Marxism to Left Heideggerianism
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SEVEN
Arbeit Macht Frei: Heidegger As Philosopher of the German “Way”
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