<p class="quote"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">How many scholarly stakes in the heart will we need before Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), still regarded by some as Germany's greatest 20th-century philosopher, reaches his final resting place as a prolific, provincial Nazi hack? Overrated in his prime, bizarrely venerated by acolytes even now, the pretentious old Black Forest babbler makes one wonder whether there's a university-press equivalent of wolfsbane, guaranteed to keep philosophical frauds at a distance.</span></p> Carlin Romano | The Chronicle Review heidegger, germany, philosophy, chronicle review the-feed 2 2009-11-10T10:07:10-05:00 <p>The debate on who should be named Germany's greatest 20th Century philosopher rages on.</p> 2 6404 heidegger-prolific-provincial-nazi-hack 2009-11-10T10:07:20-05:00 true false false false false 2009-11-10T10:27:27-05:00 http://chronicle.com/article/Heil-Heidegger-/48806/ 84 0 0