In NDPR, Adam Knowles reviews Gregory Fried's Confronting Heidegger: A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy.

The reader would be naïve to think that Fried's book solves anything, especially regarding the complex questions for which Heidegger often serves as a placeholder. But what does success in philosophy even mean? There is a venerable tradition going back to Plato which states that progress in philosophy may not mean answering questions, but instead clarifying why they cannot be answered.