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10 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
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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The Politics of Being by Richard Wolin (Paperback - April 15, 1992)
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