RE: heidegger and greek

Chris Morrissey
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> In 1940 Heidegger wrote, "...the spirit of the Greek language [griechischen
> Sprachgeist], which, to be sure , is implicitly philosophical and
> metaphysical [unausgesprochenen philosophisch-metaphysischer] and is
> therefore, along with Sanskrit and cultivated [gutverwahrten] German,
> distinguished above every other language." (Nietzsche 4, p. 37/N2 73)

What page is that in the Capuzzi/Krell translation?

> Heidegger's critical reading of Nietzsche, as Schuermann notes). This
> scenario could perhaps even throw some light on the strange anecdote we
> have from Gadamer, namely that Heidegger was fond of telling his young
> intimates that 'Nietzsche had ruined him.'

So metaphysics + Geist = Nazism
& metaphysics + nihilism = essential thinking ?



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