by Gregory Fried (Author)
This book presents an original and creative enactment of a confrontation between Heidegger and Plato. Gregory Fried outlines a new approach to ethics and politics combining skeptical idealism and what he calls polemical ethics, and goes on to apply polemical ethics to the crucial questions around fascism and racism.
Author Biography
Gregory Fried is professor of philosophy at Boston College. He is the author of Heidegger's Polemos: From Being to Politics. With Richard Polt, he has translated Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics and Being and Truth as well as edited A Companion to Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics" and Nature, History, State: 1933-1934. He is cofounder and director of the Mirror of Race Project (mirrorofrace.bc.edu). With his father, Charles Fried, he is author of Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy, and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror.