Malcolm Riddoch:
"I think the 'reactionary' notion is still an interesting way of reading
"Heidegger, especially if the texts from these times are his attempt to
"engage with the 'inner truth and greatness' of National Socialism. Do you
"think that Heidegger's reactionary politics, his 'new beginning', is enough
"of a problem to at least call into question the notion of a primordial
"pre-metaphysical experience of the 'origin'? An interesting ethical
"question, or a question of Heidegger's ethics?
I'm lobbying the dialectical approach: surely the "text" of his
life-and-times must be contemplated simultaneous with
his opus. I doubt his Nazism contemplated the genocide of
Jews/Gypsies; any more than Jefferson's Republicanism, the
N. American aborigenes; or Zionists', the Palestinians; but
if it doesn't manifest primarily an ethical failure, as these
were clearly foreseeable eventualities, it must manifest a
psychological thralldom, idee fixe...say reactionism, nostalgia,
world-loathing...professor's dream of Attica, or Barbarossa and
the Holy Roman Empire...?
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