{ Thursday, March 11, 2010 }
I was wondering at the picture of Heidegger's spatulate head on the cover of Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy, then noticed what seemed to be missing from the back of his skull was in fact his slicked-back hair, and noticed the mustache he is wearing in the style most commonly associated with Hitler. Given the subject of the book, this is certainly not an accident.
I hadn't much followed Heidegger Nazi controversy, however the author of this book, Emmanuel Faye, believes that "the diffusion of Heidegger's works after the war slowly descends like ashes after the explosion - a grey cloud slowly suffocating and extinguishing minds", and that the vast literature on Heidegger continues to spread "the fundamental tenets of Nazism on a worldwide scale".
That seems hyperbolic, but OK. I'd always been entertained by the very thing that seems to most frustrate philosophers about Heidegger, such as when he writes things such as "the Nothing noths", but now it seems that was not as harmless an entertainment as I had thought.
LINK | 4:41 AM | TB
richard wolin's "the heidegger controversy" is probably the only reasonable, fair take on the heidegger nazi controversy.
the heidegger supporters wrote books comparable to faye's. derrida gives an incoherent defense of heidegger in "on spirit"... and bourdieu goes through the theatrics of talking about heidegger I and heidegger II as if they are different people to avoid linking his own theories to heidegger's nazism.
grzegorz miaskiewicz | April 6, 2010 2:50 AM{ Post a comment }
for the first time I completely disagree with miss Fake. :(
mauro | March 17, 2010 6:25 PM