RE: Husserl/Heidegger


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Ted Vaggalis wrote

>You should know that this issue has come=20
>up before and that Heideggerians
>are notorious for burying this issue.=20
>My experience is that there is a
>tendency on this list to ignore these posts

This statement, like most of the statements made on this list about this =
subject, is disingenuous. Any of us doing serious work on Heidegger =
must confront this issue (and I hope we all do). Much of what is said =
about it, however, is unhelpful and repetitious, and these discussions =
have a habit of dragging on in a tone that begins tetchily and ends up =
in a kind of totalising self-righteousness. =20

I do not know what it means for Ted to tell us that our very ignoring of =
these posts is a hitting of the mark. Closer to the truth might be that =
some of us are fed up with the poverty of the discussion. The quality =
of scholarship on this subject is on the whole poor (with some =
outstanding exceptions) - leading one author to title one of his =
chapters "Revealing Concealed Nazism in Heidegger's xxx Text". Well =
please - Undergraduates can do better than that on the basis of three =
days half-hearted reading of a few articles. And least they have some =
justification for being ill-read in the subject area, and jumping to =
outrageous conclusions on the basis of half an hour's thought.

Surely care must be exercised. I do not know to what Wilton Rodger =
referred when he tells us about Heidegger's supposed comments on =
Husserl, but I do think that he should tell us, precisely. Too much in =
this debate consists of "didn't Heidegger once ..." You may fill in the =
blank along the lines of "hate Jews" "have a Jewish lover" "hate the =
Catholic Church" "become a Jesuit priest" and so on ...

This "debate" (for it rarely attains such a level) has a feel of eternal =
recurrence about it. If you feel moved to speak on it, can't there be =
more Ereignis and less Wiederkehr?

Laurence
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