Volume 26, Number 6 · April 19, 1979
Take the B Train
By P.F. Strawson
Martin Heidegger
by George Steiner
Viking (Modern Masters series), 173 pp., $10.95
On Difficulty and Other Essays
by George Steiner
Oxford University Press, 209 pp., $10.95
As George Steiner remarks, the name and the work of Heidegger are apt to evoke extreme and violently opposed reactions. To some he appears as a thinker of unique depth and power who points the way to the only kind of salvation that can be hoped for in a posttheological age. Others, and particularly those who have been intellectually reared in the tradition of Anglo-American analytic philosophy, see him as the embodiment of Teutonic pseudo profundity, a charlatan who peddles, in a rebarbative and barely penetrable idiom, a distasteful mixture of nonsense and banality.
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