Heidegger

That was hot a couple years ago in France, made the covers of the newsweeklies, and on closer examination it turned out there wasn’t anything new; just bombast. In general, most of the embarrassing material has been discovered by scholars in the course of their research, and every once in a while someone will sensationalize this or that to promote themselves.

There are still a few more lecture courses, manuscripts and symposium notes left to translate. Translations of the lecture courses from 1933-34 should be available in the next couple of years, and they’re bound to be of interest to those who care about Heidegger’s politics.

But already over sixty books and lectures courses by Heidegger on philosophy have been published in English. One can read Heidegger to find out how he thought, or stick to journalism, have an opinion, decide who is a “philosopher” based on whether they were politically correct, and not think.

Joseph Polanik wrote:
GEVANS613 at aol.com wrote:
> Nazi Foundations in Heidegger’s Work
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> Emmanuel Faye
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> Paris X–Nanterre
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> 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 A new piece by Heidegger (previously unpublished ) has been issued.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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Posted on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
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