Heidegger

In a message dated 28/10/2006 14:24:01 GMT Standard Time,
artefact at t-online.de writes:

Cologne 28-Oct-2006

Kevin Winters schrieb Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:12:52 -0700:

> I found the following in _What is Called Thinking?_, the first lecture
> Heidegger gave following his involvement with Nazism. The context is his
> talking about Nietzsche’s Ubermensch.
>
> “Nietzsche’s thinking gives expression to something that already exists but
> is still concealed from current views. We may assume, then, that here and
> there, still invisible to the public eye, the superman already exists. But
> we must never look for the superman’s figure and nature in those characters
> who by a shallow and misconceived will to power are pushed to the top as
the
> chief functionaries of the various organizations in which that will to
power
> incorporates itself” (59-60).
>
> Not long after that Heidegger quotes Nietzsche’s claim that the rise of the
> “German Reich” is the “form of decline of the state” (in “Twilight of the
> Idols,” _Portable Nietzsche_, 543. Pertinent, I think.

ME: What is questionable here is that Heidegger’s thinking on power and the
state emerges from his Auseinandersetzung with Nietzsche, and never results
in a concept (i.e. ontological concept or _idea_ in the original sense of the
term) of power, will to power or state. “Nietzsche hat mich kaputt gemacht.”
Indeed.

JUD EVANS:
A realist, rather than an apologist version of the above, is that the
disgraced Heidegger, was ordered to submit his resignation from the *rectalship* he
dishonoured when an earlier relationship with a teenage Jewess [which a few
years later carried the death penalty] came to light, possibly engineered
and reported to the Gestapo via his enemies or by his own humiliated wife.
This action was compounded by the bad reports of him being responsible for
alienating his university staff through his insensitive and over-enthusiastic
introduction [rather than a gradual and sensitive instauration] of the
drastic changes ot university life called for by the Nazis, in which he himself
had played an important part [see Ott?] in an advisory capacity via the Nazi
academic organisations with which he was associated.

The slur in the (59-60) fragment above was OBVIOUSLY aimed at those
functionaries, his enemies, who he describes as having: a shallow and misconceived
will to power, who had seen through his craven opportunism and shopped him -
in well-documented letters to various Nazi magazines, and by writing letters
to the central authorities.

The key to understanding that this was a resentful and vengeful attack on
individuals, and his faith in the party remained firm in the quotation from
the retrospective pathetic attempt at exculpation: Was heisst Denken? (”What
Is Called Thinking?” 1954). above are the two the*safety clauses* subtly
inserted to make it clear to all but the naive that he remained a convinced Nazi
even as late as 1954.

NAZI ASS-COVERING CLAUSE (A) *…who by a shallow and misconceived will to
power…*

This lets his adored Adolf of the hook - for he was Heidegger’s God and his
*Will to Power* was of course *authentic*

NAZI ASS-COVERING CLAUSE (B) *here and there, still invisible to the public
eye, the superman already exists.*

The phrase: *We may assume, then, that here and there, still invisible to
the public eye, the superman already exists* was an obvious beau geste to the
post-war neo-Nazis. Thus is Heidegger responsible in large part for the
continuation of anti-Semitism in Europe for which he would no doubt doff his
pickle-stauber in gratitude to those naive Jews of academia, who in their
sickening support for for this gross liar perpetuate hostility to their own kind
manifested recently in attacks on synogogues and the desecration of Jewish
cemetaries. *Our Martin* as the neo Nazis respectfully and lovingly refer to him,
is still working his evil from below six feet of his beloeved *German soil.*

The pathetic insinuation that Nietzsche’s claim that the rise of the “German
Reich” is the “form of decline of the state* - was NOT a reference to The
Third Reich at all - it was written by Friedrich Nietzsche in 1895, four
years before HItler was even born, and referred not to the Nazi state, nor to
Heidegger’s *supermen,* many of whom [but unfortunately not him] ended up in
the garage of Spandua Prison slowly swinging back and forth on the end of a
rope - but the state brought into existence mainly by Bismark during the period
of the Unification of Germany, 1862-1871.

God help you with your hopes for a good grade Kevin if you submit such gross
misinterpretations or detect such inferences from the lies of Heidegger to a
marker with his head screwed on. Do more research. Don’t restrict yourself
to the ass-crawling variety of Heideggerian with an academic career and
publishing agenda.

Take every word written by the biggest *inveterate liar* [Arendt] in the
history of philosophy with the biggest pinch of salt your fingers can grab.
Familiarise yourself with your greasy, slippery, lying subject as viewed by
his detractors - just as much as his ass-crawling thurifers, as you would
deal with the con-man who sold the Eiffel Tower to a naive American tourist, or
you will end up as out of touch as poor MichaelP - still asking
begginer-type questions about eliminativism, though it has been a regular feature of
philosophy courses in British Institutions of higher learning for years.

regards,

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

Posted on Saturday, October 28th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
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