“His new translator

tells you what you

need to know about

the philosopher —

and why you need

to know it”: Being Martin Heidegger. “Why is there something instead of

nothing,” asked philosopher Martin Heidegger, and he

asked it again and again throughout his life. But,

considering his at times nearly incomprehensible response to

his own question and his affiliation with the Nazis during

the 1930s, there are more than a few who have since

plaintively wished, “Why couldn’t there be nothing instead

of Heidegger?” Salon