Ethics and Danger examines Heidegger's association with German National Socialism and attempts to understand both the question of politics in Heidegger's thought and the thought that gives rise to that question. It explores the contribution of Heidegger's work to issues of ethics, technology, and social theory, as well as his relationship to other thinkers such as Parmenides, Aristotle, Hegel, Husserl, Benjamin, Levinas, Rorty, Foucault, and Derrida. Finally, it addresses the more general question of the future of ethical thought within continental philosophy. In order to engage the ethical issues surrounding Heidegger's life and thought, the authors speak of dangers such as facism and the facile, self-congratulatory moral stance that Heidegger exemplifies. The question of how to speak in the wake of Heidegger's thought takes many forms, and the answers represent a diversity of viewpoints from both American and continental thinkers.

Table of Contents:
Introduction PART 1. HEIDEGGER AND POLITICS Samuel IJsseling, Heidegger and Politics 2. William J. Richardson, Heidegger's Truth and Politics 3. Francoise Dastur, Three Questions to Jacques Derrida 4. John D. Caputo, Spirit and Danger 5. David Farrell Krell, Of Spirit and the Daimon: On Derrida's De l'esprit 6. Veronique M. Foti, Aletheia and Oblivion's Field: On Heidegger's Parmenides Lectures 7. Babette E. Babich, Questioning Heidegger's Silence: A Postmodern Topology PART 2. HEIDEGGER'S THOUGHT 8. Peg Birmingham, Ever Respectfully Mine: Heidegger on Agency and Responsibility 9. Tina Chanter, Metaphysical Presence: Heidegger on Time and Eternity 10. Rebecca Comay, Framing Redemption: Aura, Origin, Technology in Benjamin and Heidegger 11. John van Buren, The Young Heidegger, Aristotle, Ethics 12. Klaus Held, The Finitude of the World: Phenomenology in Transition from Husserl to Heidegger (translated by Anthony J. Steinbock) 13. Joseoh C. Flay, Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida: Retirieval as Reconstruction, Destruction, Deconstruction 14. Robert Mugerauer, Architecture as Properly Useful Opening PART 3. ETHICAL CURRENTS IN CONTINENTAL THOUGHT 15. Edith Wyschogrod, Does Continental Ethics Have a Future? 16. Ladelle McWhorter, Asceticism/Askesis: Foucault's Thinking Historical Subjectivity 17. Mario Moussa, Foucault and the Problem of Agency; Or, Toward a Practical Philosophy 18. Cynthia Willett, Partial Attachments: A Deconstructive Model of Responsibility 19. Roger Bell, Rorty on Derrida: A Discourse of Simulated Moderation 20. Bill Martin, Elements of a Derridean Social Theory 21. Craig R. Vasey, Faceless Women and Serious Others: Levinas, Misogyny, and Feminism Contributors Index