If I had to rate the best intellectual experiences of my life, choosing the two or three most profound—a tendentious task, but there you are—one of them would be reading Heidegger. I was in my late ...

The following is an excerpt from “‘Breaking Bad’ and Philosophy: Badder Living Through Chemistry,” edited by David R. Koepsell and Robert Arp. The book is now available from Open Court Publishing. The ...

The controversy stirred up by the revelations in Evelyn Barish’s new biography of the literary scholar and “deconstructionist” Paul de Man (which Louis Menand recently discussed in the magazine) will, ...

Once discredited by his association with Nazism, Martin Heidegger is enjoying a posthumous revival. So what is it about his ideas that resonate with so many? By Samuel Earle If every philosopher has a ...