Martin Heidegger: Life & Philosophy | feat. Dr. Iain Thomson

Heidegger is known as one of the most groundbreaking, original, and difficult philosophers to ever read. He is also known for being a Nazi. Some say that his Nazi membership (and personal life) shouldn't matter because he wasn't a political thinker anyway, and then there are those who argue that everything he writes should be seen through that lens, or that he should be full on cancelled.
Without Heidegger there would be no Derrida, de Beauvoir, Sartre, Foucault, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, or Butler, just to name a few. How could philosophers, so many of them politically left, continue reading Heidegger after he failed to denounce Nazism?
This evening we are joined by Dr. Iain Thomson from University of New Mexico to talk about how life relates to philosophy, specifically regarding the life and work of Martin Heidegger.

Professor Thomson regularly teaches "Introduction to Philosophy," "Existentialism," "Modern Political Philosophy," and various courses on contemporary continental philosophy, focusing on figures such as Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida, or on issues like the philosophical significance of death, technology, and nihilism.
His personal site:
http://www.unm.edu/~ithomson/

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