Heidegger

— Anthony Crifasi wrote:
>
> I addressed Allen’s post that same day. Here’s the link:
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> http://heidegger.an-archos.com/archive/h…
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> Perhaps you could address my reply?
>

Great! I saw that reply, but didn’t know it was from you. (I don’t
see any “From:” header. How does anyone tell from whom a posting in
the archive is? Who’s indicating “related posts”?; and how? Earlier,
I looked for direction, but found no guidance. I can’t tell whether
Allen replied to you. The Yahoo! interface seems better.)

Re: your reply to Allen: It looks like you’re speculatively
concurring with him, not saying anything that pertains to your
earlier question today. Now, you write:

A>The relationship between Heidegger and Nazism has been discussed
often enough for me to use “THE” quite generically to signify simply
the evaluation of that relationship. That’s all I meant.

G: There is no such thing as “THE relationship…quite generically”
to evaluate, except trivially (as linguistic string having no
specificity) *exactly because* Heidegger… and… Nazism (vague
tokens of interest, as vague separately as is the “and” of the
string) have been attended to so variously—and vaguely.

But if I grant you your THE and AND, I would argue that there is NO
relationship between Heidegger and Nazism. If you really are
referring to Heidegger, as shown through “Heideggerian” work; and you
really are referring to Nazism, as it understood itself, the AND is
empty, and the history of issues is about misunderstanding
Heidegger’s B&T, thus his rectorship, and then finding him culpable
for having a weird Greek-romantic hope for a non-Marxist New Deal
that might hold sway due to his academic charisma—naïve, and
quickly recognized as such. I’ve been ’round and ’round on this so
much, in earlier years, that I won’t weather more trotting out of
“but…buts” anymore, which is just longing for a cohering narrative
(an incriminating one!) where there is none.

Gary

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Posted on Sunday, July 13th, 2008 at 6:00 am
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