This study reconstructs the relationship between philosophy and politics in the way in which Heidegger's failure as a politician influenced the redevelopment of philosophy in the 1930s. The author also explains how Heidegger's failure influenced the content and direction of his later work.
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In what may be the best available study of Heidegger's relation to Nazism, Wolin demonstrates that . . . Heidegger's thought was inextricably combined with his decision to support the Nazis. -- Dissent
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Detailed but mislead and unproductive,
This review is from: The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger (Hardcover)
Wolin is interpreting Heidegger to show how his philosophy can be used by or sympathetic to the Nazi movement. He is by no means simply analizing Hiedegger's thought. This is an interesting critical approach to Heidegger's thought, because he does have tendencies that can be interpreted as dictatorial and nationalistic. However Heidegger also has tendencies of pluralism and ultra-democracy. To be critical of his tendencies towards dictatorship and nationalism is a valuable project, especially since he seems to lean in these direction as opposition to technocracy, globalization, specialization. This, and may of the Americans who write on this, is not a productive approach to the problem. His critique seems to mask an attack on Heidegger's thought as well as all those who have come after him in the continental tradition. It is not truly critique, it is witch hunting. The tone betrays his overall dislike and attack on European late modernists and post-modernism. Derrida criticizes Wolin saying that it appears that he has never read most of Heidegger's works. The meaning of this comment is not that Wolin has never read Heidegger, but that he read him in order to interpret Heidegger as a Nazi and then dismiss him and all of his successors. For Derrida reading is either to think the thoughts as the writer thought them or to interpret the writing in a productive way- both are deep reading practices. Wolin does neither as he deal with Heidegger.
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In the passionate debate that has raged over the course of the last several years concerning the National Socialist convictions of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, many facts of great significance have come to light. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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National Socialism, National Socialist, Rectoral Address, German Volk, Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger, Overcoming Metaphysics, Ernst Ringer, National Awakening, National Revolution, German Dasein, Karl Jaspers, League of Nations, Third Reich, Adolf Hitler, Heidegger's Nazism, Herbert Marcuse, Leo Strauss, Oswald Spengler, Plato's Doctrine of Truth, Political Theology, The Age of the World-Picture New!
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In the passionate debate that has raged over the course of the last several years concerning the National Socialist convictions of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, many facts of great significance have come to light. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conservative revolutionary critique, bourgeois normalcy, authentic temporality, existential ontology, active nihilism, categorial framework, fundamental ontology, inauthentic modes, existential analytic, social ontology, conservative revolutionaries, existential analysis, aesthetic state Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Socialism, National Socialist, Rectoral Address, German Volk, Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger, Overcoming Metaphysics, Ernst Ringer, National Awakening, National Revolution, German Dasein, Karl Jaspers, League of Nations, Third Reich, Adolf Hitler, Heidegger's Nazism, Herbert Marcuse, Leo Strauss, Oswald Spengler, Plato's Doctrine of Truth, Political Theology, The Age of the World-Picture New!
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