Nazi Foundations in Heidegger’s Work
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GEVANS613 at aol.com wrote: > Nazi Foundations in Heidegger’s Work > > > Emmanuel Faye > > > Paris X–Nanterre > > Translated by Alexis Watson and Richard J. Golsan. > > A new piece by Heidegger (previously unpublished ) has been issued. > I was able to access it through *Muse* via my university, which has an > account with them. > > In this new material by the Philosopher of Nazism, he apparently refers > to the Jews and others whom his pals murdered in the camps as - not > being dead - because they were not really living beings in the first place. > > Faye reports that Heidegger: *…barely lingers on the conditions of the > extermination of the victims. What he supports, in an extremely obscure > and cloudy fashion, is that “man can die if and only if Being itself > appropriates the essence of man into the essence of the Being beginning > with the truth of his essence.” > > Queue the Apologists… > > Faye then introduces other recent revelations concerning Heidegger’ > hatred of the Jewish people. > > There is a lot more equally horrific racialist stuff in the article, > but I do not want to risk abusing the copyright in any way. Those > interested in reading this stuff, which rips away the mask of the > dégagé academician from this evil man’s face to reveal the stunted > anti-human bastard beneath also identifies proto-nazism and race in > Being and Time.
This is hot; but, unfortunately, I’m going to have to wait to read it until I get a chance to drive by the local university to access it via their Muse account.
If what your synopsis is accurate, Heidegger would be in violation of the universality principle of philosophy (that the structure of the human individual is the same for all human individuals); and, consequently, his verbiage would have to be demoted from the status of ‘philosophy’ to the status of ‘ideology’.
Joe
– Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the first person. — H-N Castaneda
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