Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross – review
This account of Wagner’s influence on the great and ghastly is passionate and encyclopedic, if unfocused
August 2020
Book of the day
Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger review – philosophy's great decade?
The story, told with free-wheeling gusto, of four German thinkers – Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein – before the dark decade of the 1930s
April 2016
Public house music: Mark Fell on making art in a derelict boozer
In the dark days of the 1980s, ravers in Sheffield discovered politics, pirate radio and MDMA. Mark Fell explains why he’s channelling Heidegger for his installation on an infamous Sheffield estate
June 2014
New East network
Why both the left and right have got it wrong on Ukraine – Žižek
There's a historical irony in watching Ukrainians tearing down Lenin’s statues as a sign of their will to break with Soviet domination, says Slavoj Žižek
March 2014
Heidegger's black notebooks aren't that surprising
Domenico Losurdo
Heidegger's 'black notebooks' reveal antisemitism at core of his philosophy
November 2012
Portrait of the artist
Kurt Elling, jazz singer – portrait of the artist
'It's hard to read Heidegger, especially if you spent the night before sitting in with Chicago's jazz musicians'
April 2012
The networker
Cyberwarfare takes Heidegger's ideas to their logical end
Cyberwarfare offers governments the prospect of waging casualty-free wars, writes John Naughton
November 2010
Cif belief
What philosophy tells us about the happiness index
Clare Carlisle
Clare Carlisle: Thinkers from Bentham to Heidegger saw measuring happiness as more than just a box-ticking exercise
January 2010
Heidegger, Hitler's 'spiritual guide'
John Keenan
John Keenan: Martin Heidegger's work is powerful and original – but it should be regarded as Nazi theory rather than philosophy
July 2009
Cif belief
Heidegger's Being and Time, part 8: Temporality
Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley: How to believe: Time should be grasped in and of itself as the unity of the three dimensions of future, past and present
Cif belief
Being and Time, part 7: Conscience
Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley: How to believe: For Heidegger, the call of conscience is one that silences the chatter of the world and brings me back to myself
Cif belief
Being and Time part 6: Death
Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley: How to believe: Far from being morbid, Heidegger's conception of living in the knowledge of death is a liberating one
June 2009
Cif belief
Being and Time, part 3: Being-in-the-world
Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley: How Heidegger turned Descartes upside down, so that we are, and only therefore think
Cif belief
Being and Time, part 2: On 'mineness'
Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley: How to believe: For Heidegger, what defines the human being is the capacity to be puzzled by the deepest of questions: why is there something rather than nothing?
Cif belief
Being and Time, part 1: Why Heidegger matters
Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley: How to believe: The most important continental philosopher of the last century was also a Nazi. How did he get there? What can we learn from him?
March 2009
Theatre blog
Adapting The Telephone Book – and other tough calls
Alexis Soloski: Playwrights are turning to increasingly abstruse texts, such as this volume inspired by Derrida and exploring Heidegger. Which plays have the strangest source material of all?
November 2006
Stuck between Heidegger and Deirdre's Casebook
Patrick Tomlin
Patrick Tomlin on settling into life as a postgrad student.
April 2005
Viennese whirl
In the first of a series of brief interviews introducing the inaugural Vienna Writers' Festival, Irvine Welsh talks about hope, Heidegger and hair loss.
February 2004
Signs of intellectual life
I was surprised to find no mention of Martin Heidegger in Tristram Hunt's article on the declining influence of German thinkers on British intellectual life (Goodbye to Berlin, February 13).
