Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx remain two of the most influential thinkers in philosophy, in political science and other social sciences, and in the humanities. Yet there has never been a full-length study in English of the relationship between their ideas, and there has only been one study in German (from 1966). A Productive Dialogue fills this gap and contradicts the widely held assumption that Heidegger had no significant engagement with Marx. Hemming focuses on four related areas of inquiry—Heidegger’s reading of Marx; Marx’s relation to G. W. F. Hegel; Heidegger’s disastrous political involvement with National Socialism; and the significance of Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, and Friedrich Nietzsche for the politics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A Productive Dialogue explores the understanding of political processes, systems, and behavior that animates both thinkers.

PrefaceIntroduction – There is no Justice in Heidegger or for MarxChapter 1 – Interpretations of Heidegger and MarxChapter 2 – The History of Marx and HeideggerChapter 3 – The History and Negation of MetaphysicsChapter 4 – Logic and DialecticChapter 5 – Metaphysics of the Human StateChapter 6 – The Situation of GermanyChapter 7 – The Ideology of GermanyChapter 8 – Nazism, Liberalism, HumanismChapter 9 – The Jewish QuestionChapter 10 – Speaking of the Essence of ManChapter 11 – Production – Previously this was Called GodChapter 12 – The End of HumanismChapter 13 – Between Men and GodsChapter 14 – ConclusionBibliography

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