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Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Thomas Pynchon
Tristes Tropiques
John Weightman, Doreen Weightman, Patrick Wilcken, Claude Lévi-Strauss
Richard III
William Shakespeare
The Dwarf
Alexandra Dick, Pär Lagerkvist
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen, Cecil Day-Lewis
Labyrinths
Richard Wolin
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Dillian Gordon, Nicholas Penny
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
Steven Weisenburger

The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger

The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger - Richard Wolin Gave up.... Haven't the stomach now to wade through pages on Heidegger.... Maybe when I'm older.... The articles below (especially the one on E. Nolte), which are biographical and historical, are enough.


For an excellent brief and clear overview of the topic of Heidegger and his Nazi connections, see
Th. Sheehan, NYRB, vol. 35, no. 10 (1988): http://www.nybooks.com/articles/4397; also vol. 40, nos. 1&2 (1993) on Ernst Nolte: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2701. For Wolin, who is an expert also on the Frankfurt School and on writers such as W. Benjamin, see The Seduction of Unreason:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/349784.The_Seduction_of_Unreason_The_Intellectual_Romance_with_Fascism_from_Nietzsche_to_Postmodernism

The current book is a rich analysis of the philosophical basis, in Sein und Zeit, of Heidegger's political commitments and entanglements.