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On reading Heidegger—after the “Heidegger case”?

journal contribution
posted on 2018-01-01, 00:00 authored by Matthew Sharpe
This 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.

History

Journal

Critical horizons

Volume

19

Issue

4

Pagination

334 - 360

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Location

Abingdon, Eng.

ISSN

1440-9917

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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