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On reading Heidegger—after the “Heidegger case”?
journal contribution
posted on 2018-01-01, 00:00 authored by Matthew SharpeThis paper looks at the state of the literature surrounding Heidegger
and Nazism today. Part 1 focusses on Hassan Givsan’s remarkable
work, Une histoire consternante: pourquoi les philosophes se laissent
corrompre par le “cas Heidegger”, which looks at the different,
mutually inconsistent forms of “apologetics” denying that
Heidegger had been a Nazi, or that this commitment could have
been shaped by his philosophy. Part 2 looks at five themes that
emerge from the 2014 French-language collection Heidegger, le
sol, la communauté, la race, edited by Emmanuel Faye:
Heidegger’s anti-semitism, before and in the Black Notebooks; Sein
und Zeit and “the political”; Heidegger and his estate’s post-war
“rewriting” of his Nazi-era texts; Heidegger’s esotericism; and his
intellectual proximities to other Nazi thinkers. Closing reflections
touch on the state of the debate, calling for increased scholarly
awareness of the evidence, and debate of its significance.
and Nazism today. Part 1 focusses on Hassan Givsan’s remarkable
work, Une histoire consternante: pourquoi les philosophes se laissent
corrompre par le “cas Heidegger”, which looks at the different,
mutually inconsistent forms of “apologetics” denying that
Heidegger had been a Nazi, or that this commitment could have
been shaped by his philosophy. Part 2 looks at five themes that
emerge from the 2014 French-language collection Heidegger, le
sol, la communauté, la race, edited by Emmanuel Faye:
Heidegger’s anti-semitism, before and in the Black Notebooks; Sein
und Zeit and “the political”; Heidegger and his estate’s post-war
“rewriting” of his Nazi-era texts; Heidegger’s esotericism; and his
intellectual proximities to other Nazi thinkers. Closing reflections
touch on the state of the debate, calling for increased scholarly
awareness of the evidence, and debate of its significance.