Heidegger

In a message dated 30/11/2006 21:43:09 GMT Standard Time, phil at thalasson.com
writes:

Jud: [earlier]
Now YOUR job is to reconcile the Heraclitus quote, which refers to ancient
external war on the one hand, and Heidegger’s call for mass extermination
of
his own German people on the other, and I will be MOST interested to see
the
way in which you handle it.

Philip Baker:
Your job is first to present us with this lecture in full along with
some evidence that this is generally accepted as the words of Heidegger.

Jud:
There is the evidence of Emanuel Faye, a respected associate-professor of
one of France’s leading universities.
Are you accusing him of lying? Do you indict him of falsifying Heidegger’s
text?

Philip Baker:
Found your first philosopher yet who treats Heidegger “more as a bad
joke than as a serious thinker”?
–

Jud:
Well… I suppose we could start with Popper?

APPEAL
I appeal to the philosophers of all countries to unite and never again
mention Heidegger or talk to another philosopher who defends Heidegger. This man
was a devil. I mean, he behaved like a devil to his beloved teacher, and he
has a devilish influence on Germany.
Sir Karl Popper.

Jud:
Now…over to you for your for attempt at a reconciliation of Heraclitus’
philosophical observation that for the ancient Greeks *War is the father of
all and king of all,* with a personal political call by Heidegger for the
mass extermination of a large part of the population of his own country, which
ended with the gassing, shooting and hanging of 6-million men, women and
children of that land, amongst them some people whom had fought in the
trenches to save his neck while he checked out wind direction and strength for
poison-gas release from a position of safety behind the lines.

Your response to this asinine, transparent and totally unsuccessful attempt
at deflection by Arjakovsky, who deliberately omitted the critical words
*WITHIN THE NATION* is awaited with great interest. If YOU ARE successful in
this most challenging of *coup d’excuses,* it will be the chef-d’oeuvre of
your consistent career-record as perhaps THE leading apologist on this list, who
has over the years systematically argued to defend or justify and play-down
the agenda of Heidegger. Your record to date represents a level of the
highest possible achievement for dogged persistence in this odious area. Hitler
himself would have been proud of you, and would no doubt have pinned the iron
cross on your foreign breast with trembling palsied fingers, before shooting
his overweight Barbie-Doll bride, then himself and a little while later
having petrol cast over him to burn like an ignominious dog in the car-park above
his underground lair.

The opportunity is now here for you to serve up the chef-d’oeuvre of your
vocation as a dedicated apologist for this gruesome, murderous lying monster
Heidegger - GO FOR IT - the *Goebells Gold Cup* is almost within your grasp.

Quote:
*The scholarly status of the Gesamtausgabe is highly contested, since its
editorial policies are extremely obscure. In fact, the way in which access to
Heidegger’s estate (at the Deutsches Literatur archiv, Marbach) is restricted
is quite scandalous. This makes it literally impossible to assess the
philological accuracy of the available editions. Until 2026 access will be granted
on opaque grounds to some researchers and not to others by Hermann Heidegger,
who has propounded a rather questionable interpretation of Heidegger’s
behavior between 1933 and 1945 (see the interview with him at:  http://-www.information-philosophie.de/p… )*
*Heidegger and National Socialism: New Contributions to an Old Debate* by
Robin Celikates
_http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/celikates.htm_
 http://evans-experientialism.freewebspac…)

I have no idea how old you are - but you could be in for the surprise of
your life in twenty years time. I hope I last long and this list is still
going.

regards,

Jud Evans.
Personal Website: http://evans-experientialism.freewebspac…

Posted on Thursday, November 30th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
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