Heidegger and the triumph of reason at Gallimard
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Heidegger and the triumph of reason at Gallimard
Today’s Feuilleton in the Frankfurter Rundschau contains an _article_
http://www.fr-aktuell.de/in_und_ausland/…)
concerning the recent decision by the French publishing house Gallimard to
cease publication of a collection of articles yet again attempting to defend
Heidegger’s association with the Nazi Party as a mere faux-pas.
The story is this. A year ago Emmanuel Faye published a study, Heidegger -
l’introduction du nazisme dans la philosophie, detailing that the connections
between the Heideggerean philosophical system and the infamous Rektoratsrede
of 1933 penetrate to the very core of Heidegger’s thought. [A translated Le
Nouvel Observateur interview with Faye is available _here_
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspac…) .] At this point, François Fédier, the
series editor of the edition of Heidegger’s works at Gallimard, proposed an
edited volume, to be entitled “Heidegger - Grounds Rather Than Unreason,”
defending Heidegger against Faye’s attack. After the galleys were already finished,
however, company chief Antoine Gallimard decided to put the project on hold;
the book will not be published by Gallimard.
The story is stranger still. Heidegger’s popularity in France has much to do
with the work of his French translator, Jean Beaufret, who died in 1982.
There have been suspicions about Beaufret’s political views at least since 1978,
when he expressed public solidarity for Robert Faurisson, a student of
Beaufret’s and a noted Holocaust denier. Fédier, however, is also a student of
Beaufret’s — and one whose own translations of Heidegger demonstrate, as the FR
argues, a tendency to soften the effect of Heidegger’s record of statements
in support of Nazi policies. This seems to suggest that Gallimard’s decision
not to publish the Fédier’s volume is not one of simple censorship, but one
that is well within the bounds of reasonableness.
Heil Heidegger!
What a pathetic burk!
