Who’s afraid of Martin Heidegger?

Why the most radioactive philosopher of the 20th century still speaks to us

by Lyndsey Stonebridge for The New Statesman

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‘On 20 August 2022 a 29-year-old journalist and political activist, Darya Dugina, was assassinated with a car bomb about 12 miles outside Moscow. Dugina was the daughter of the right-wing ideologue and philosopher Alexander Dugin, for whom it was widely assumed the bomb was intended. Dugin is also a scholar of the 20th-century German philosopher, Martin Heidegger. Intelligence sources in the United States believe that the bombing may have been authorised by figures in the Ukrainian government. The Kremlin says it is sure that it was...’

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