Knowledge Commons | Scott M. Alexander | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/scottalexander416/activity/ Activity feed for Scott M. Alexander. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:22:01 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 39878713515e6b62d4ace349a84fd4bc Scott M. Alexander deposited Heidegger, the Jews, and Religion: Thoughts on Martin Heidegger, Between Good and Evil, by Rüdiger Safranski, Translated by Ewald Osers (1989) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1873779/ Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:45:00 -0500 Martin Heidegger, Between Good and Evil is another success for Rüdiger Safranski in his ongoing project to explain modern German philosophy. I recently enjoyed reading Safranski's Romanticism, a German Affair. The translation by Ewald Osers is good, but not up to the stellar standard of Robert E. Goodwin in the Romanticism book. Martin Heidegger…[Read more]

]]> 0 252f7f3196e6402c4e4e1878c5ea9a73 Scott M. Alexander deposited Man and His Monster: Review of Schopenhauer and The Wild Years of Philosophy, by Rüdiger Safranski, translated from German by Ewald Osers, Harvard University press, 1990, 349 pages https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1873775/ Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:33:40 -0500 This fine volume is a welcome addition to my shelf of Rüdiger Safranski's biographies of the great German thinkers. I enjoyed his biographies of Nietzsche and Heidegger, as well as his Romanticism, a German affair, which could be called a biography of an era. I look forward to reading his Goethe biography. In these brilliant works Safranski has…[Read more]

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