Heidegger

On 04/06/2006, at 1:57 AM, Adrian Ortiz wrote:

> Seymour Hersh said in The New Yorker that in a
> secret paper Donadolf Rumsfeld said: “catch the
> terrorists and make with them what you want”. This
> words are the same that said Adolf Hilter and Jorge
> Rafael Videla but his nazi discourse, the predominant
> discourse of our time, dont you think that have
> something to do with Heidegger way of think? Im
> thinking not only in his politics affects but in
> certain vias of his phylosophy.

If I understand you correctly then, yes, I think Heidegger’s
politically philosophical writings such as his Nietzsche volumes and
in fact much of his writing throughout the 30’s and war years are
relevant as a critique of our current world order. He was a fellow
traveller of Nazism, a Nazi himself, and I’m very much interested in
his critique of power in relation to what he saw as the nihilist will
to will of Nazism and the modern post war technological project as a
whole. He is implicated and he implicates all of us moderns, both the
leaders and the led, in the question concerning technology.

Cheers,

Malcolm

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Dr Malcolm Riddoch
Electronic Arts
School of Communications and Contemporary Arts
Faculty of Communications and Creative Industries
Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford St, Mount Lawley
Perth Western Australia
+61 08 9370 6034

Posted on Saturday, June 3rd, 2006 at 7:05 pm
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