As part of the 20th Century Political Thinkers series, Martin Heidegger Paths Taken, Paths Opened explores the continued significance of Heidegger's political thought today. Heidegger opposed, at the deepest level, everything that informs our liberal, cosmopolitan aspirations as well as the global, technological civilization that seems to be inevitable. Why, therefore, should we attend to his thinking? In this unique new work, Gregory B. Smith begins to answer this and other difficult questions about Heidegger, including his active involvement in the Nazi party in Germany. Smith sheds new light on a complex 20th century political thinker.