Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Martin Heidegger on Humanism -- Chapter Two: Carl Schmitt on God, Law, and the F�uhrer -- Chapter Three: Ernst J�unger on War for the sake of War -- Chapter Four: Karl L�owith on Sense of Humor and Departure from the German Masters -- Chapter Five: Hannah Arendt on Banality -- Chapter Six: Hans-Georg Gadamer on the Phenomenological Disinfection of Language -- Chapter Seven: Jean Am�ery on Phenomenology in the Death Camp -- Chapter Eight: Jan Assmann on Moses and Violence -- References -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.

This book explores the phenomenon of the Third Reich from a philosophical perspective. It concentrates on how Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism are conceived by eight German thinkers from the Continental tradition, exposing and then exploring the tension between ideology and philosophy, between submission to authority and genuine critical thinking, which constitute the essence of the Continental philosophical tradition.

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