In this book, Federico Dal Bo analyzes the question of Heideggers anti-Semitism from a deconstructive point of view, appealing not only to philosophy but also to psychoanalysis, gender studies, and critical studies. Deconstruction famously discourages simplistic oppositions whilst encouraging a more careful analysis of cultural and philosophical complexities of a semantic field. In the present case, a deconstructive analysis of Heideggers anti-Semitism rejects both a stern condemnation of his oeuvre and a simplistic acquittal from this infamous accusation. It rather suggests that the question of his anti-Semitism shall be examined from the broader perspectivefrom the end of metaphysics.

Federico Dal Bo (born 1973) holds a Ph.D. in Translation Studies from the University of Bologna (2005) and a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from the Free University of Berlin (2009). He has worked as a teaching assistant in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bologna, as a research assistant at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin, as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and as a research assistant at the University of Heidelberg. He currently is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His recent publications include:Emanation and Philosophy of Language: An Introduction to Joseph ben Abraham Giqatilla (Cherub Press, 2019),Deconstructing the Talmud: The Absolute Book (Routledge, 2019), andThe Lexical Field of the Substantives of 'Word' in Ancient Hebrew: From the Bible to the Mishnah (Harrassowitz, 2021).

1 Introduction: A Deconstructive Approach to Heidegger. Ontology and Critical Theory.- Of Spirit, of Spirits.- The Scene of Writing: Plato, Socrates, and Heidegger.- A Philosophy of Desire.- A Deconstructive Method.- 2 Heidegger and the (Ob)scene of Writing. From Heidegger to His Wife and Beyond.- A (Triple) Scene of Writing I: Philosophy.- Beware of Imitations!.- Heideggers Post Cards.- Heideggers Erotic Transfers.- 3 The mise-en-scène of Heideggers Ontology Between Privacy and Publicity.- H(a)unting Down Your Own Ghost.- Being Off-Scene.- A German War: Barricades Against Monstrosity.- Schelling as a Tragic Hegel.- A Witness to German Revolution.- Heidegger on Heideggers Couch.- 4 An (Un)conscious Stage of the Mind Heideggers Philosophical Psychoanalysis.- Heidegger vs Heidegger: Mending His Own Mistakes.- A Modern Art of Confession.- Inscribing a Metaphysical Truth.- A Psychology of Philosophy.- Heidegger vs Freud: The Art of Forgetting.- Eroticism of Forgetfulness.- 5 Statolatry Heidegger on the Education and the Future of German University.- Statolatry: Its Politics and Its Eroticism.- Being Without History.- A (Triple) Scene of Writing II: Philology.- A New Language, a New Philology.- Academic Egotism.- Putting Philosophy Upside Down.- 6 Beyng as a Concealed (Jewish). God Gnosis, Esotericism, and Eroticism.- A Stranger Among Us.- Cocky Warriors.- Reading Being and Time in Teheran.- Private Vices, Public Pleasures.- No Country for (Jewish) Messianism(s).- Onto-Eroticism Toward the Kabbalah.- 7 Specters of Moses. The Transcendence is Empty.- Empty Spaces.- Heideggers Interiors.- Riders of the Storm.- Heideggers Crypto-Jewish Writing.- (Jewish) Atheism(s).- 8 Conclusion.- Ontology of the Sexual.- A Planetary Philosophy.- I Think But Dare Not Speak.- Curtain Falls.