On Reading Heidegger—After the "Heidegger Case"?. Issue 4 (2nd October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sharpe, Matthew
• Is Part Of: Critical horizons. Volume 19:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 334
• Page End: 360
• Publication Date: 2018-10-02
• Subjects: Heidegger -- Nazism -- Black Notebooks -- contemporary philosophy -- denial -- affirmationism; Critical theory -- Periodicals; 142.05
• DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2018.1520514
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1440-9917

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper looks at the state of the literature surrounding Heidegger and Nazism today. Part 1 focusses on Hassan Givsan's remarkable work, Une histoire consternante: pourquoi les philosophes se laissent corrompre par le "cas Heidegger", which looks at the different, mutually inconsistent forms of "apologetics" denying that Heidegger had been a Nazi, or that this commitment could have been shaped by his philosophy. Part 2 looks at five themes that emerge from the 2014 French-language collection Heidegger, le sol, la communauté, la race, edited by Emmanuel Faye: Heidegger's anti-semitism, before and in the Black Notebooks ; Sein und Zeit and "the political"; Heidegger and his estate's post-war "rewriting" of his Nazi-era texts; Heidegger's esotericism; and his intellectual proximities to other Nazi thinkers. Closing reflections touch on the state of the debate, calling for increased scholarly awareness of the evidence, and debate of its significance.