Friday, May 28, 2010

Chalk and the abyss


From : Signandsight



The secret transcripts of Heidegger's notorious seminar "On the Essence and Concepts of Nature, History and the State" have been published for the first time.
By ALEXANDER KISSLER.



He bitter word stands in the room. It casts huge shadows over his work. Was Martin Heidegger a "Nazi philosopher"? Did Heidegger, as his student the philosopher Ernesto Grassi emphasised in 1988, derive "justification from his theoretical principles for an anti-Semitic and National Socialist position"? The case against the dark thinker is made with recourse to passages from his "Being and Time" as well as an assortment of statements, letters and reports and, above all, the Freiburg rectoral address and a seminar from the winter semester of 1933/34.



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