Heidegger's Revolutionary Politics: Russia, Iran, and the Anti-Western Imagination

At the center of Heidegger's Revolutionary Politics is the philosopher's effort to respond to modern nihilism by envisioning a "new beginning" rooted in a deeper relation to Being, history, and communal existence. This beginning is not conceived as evolutionary but rather requires a rupture with prevailing political forms and existing cultural arrangements. Duff traces how Heidegger developed this revolutionary impulse in lecture courses, the Black Notebooks, and writings from across his published corpus, and how it shaped Heidegger's search for a transformative overturning of the modern world.