Demythologizing Heidegger

<p>Caputo offers a compelling plea for a reinterpretation of Heidegger that will make us more humane and more attuned to the call of justice and mercy than to the call of Being. --Christian Century<br /><br />There is no other book that focuses on the religious significance of the many 'turnings' in Heidegger's thought nor that addresses the question of Heidegger's politics textually rather than autobiographically. --Merold Westphal<br /><br />A readable chronological consideration of Heidegger's texts that assesses his achievement as a thinker while pointing to the sources of his political and ethical failure. Caputo addresses the religious significance of Heidegger's thought.</p>