title: Being and Truth (Studies in Continental Thought)
author:  Martin Heidegger 
description: The two lecture courses collected in the volume entitled Being and Truth were delivered during Heidegger's tenure as the first Nazi rector of the University of Freiburg and thus in his darkest hour as a philosopher. . . When reading Heidegger's political statements, which frame and punctuate his otherwise thought-provoking philosophical analyses . . . what is most striking, ultimately, is Heidegger's utter blindness with respect to the true nature of an odious and destructive worldview and his systematic yet delusional projection of a profound transformation of Europe's destiny and a new dawn into the darkest episode of German history.6/3/11 (<i>Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews</i>)
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  Studies in Continental Thought
  
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  Martin Heidegger
  
   **Being and Truth**
  
  Translated by
  
   **Gregory Fried and Richard Polt**
  
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