Toxic Zen Story #18.8: Nuremberg Zen: Martin Heidegger's Philosophy of
Being.
'Recently, the efforts undertaken to protect
Heidegger against this charge [anti-Semitism]
have been refuted through the publication of a
previously unknown letter, written by Heidegger
in 1929, that is, before the Nazis came to power,
which clearly shows his anti-Semitism in his
pointed rejection of the "'Jewification' of the
German spirit [Verjudung des deutschen Geistes]."
[p.111] ... '
' ... Heidegger's original approach to Being
was as being is manifest in the "here and now" --
Dasein, being (sein) here (da). This introduces a
positivistic, Hegelian ("the real is rational")
aspect to any possible moral guidance from this
system. The here and now in 1933 meant Adolf
Hitler. The truth and greatness of National
Socialism was an authentic "uncovering" of Being.
When this didn't seem to work out, Being
"withdrew" itself, according to Heidegger. '
'"The Führer himself and alone is today and in
the future German reality and its law." [from the
Rectoral Address, p.65]'
>From "On Heidegger's Nazism and Philosophy" by Tom Rockmore
Regards,
Jud
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Being.
'Recently, the efforts undertaken to protect
Heidegger against this charge [anti-Semitism]
have been refuted through the publication of a
previously unknown letter, written by Heidegger
in 1929, that is, before the Nazis came to power,
which clearly shows his anti-Semitism in his
pointed rejection of the "'Jewification' of the
German spirit [Verjudung des deutschen Geistes]."
[p.111] ... '
' ... Heidegger's original approach to Being
was as being is manifest in the "here and now" --
Dasein, being (sein) here (da). This introduces a
positivistic, Hegelian ("the real is rational")
aspect to any possible moral guidance from this
system. The here and now in 1933 meant Adolf
Hitler. The truth and greatness of National
Socialism was an authentic "uncovering" of Being.
When this didn't seem to work out, Being
"withdrew" itself, according to Heidegger. '
'"The Führer himself and alone is today and in
the future German reality and its law." [from the
Rectoral Address, p.65]'
>From "On Heidegger's Nazism and Philosophy" by Tom Rockmore
Regards,
Jud
Personal Website:
_http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/index.htm_
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E-mail Discussion List:
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