Heidegger, History and the Holocaust

Heidegger, History and the Holocaust
Author: Mahon O'Brien
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2015-09-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472509390

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Heidegger, History and the Holocaust is an important contribution to the longstanding debate concerning Martin Heidegger's association with National Socialism. Although a difficult topic, this ambitious new work moves the entire debate on the Heidegger controversy forward. Following Being and Time Heidegger expands on his notion of authenticity and related notions such as historicity and discusses the possibility of an authentic Dasein of a people along structurally consistent lines to his account of authenticity in Being and Time. O'Brien argues that the same difficulties which appear to hamstring the early account of authenticity further affect the notion of an authentic Dasein of a people; Heidegger's political myopia in the thirties can thus be attributed to an underlying failure to come to terms with some of the difficulties discussed in this study. O'Brien concedes that Heidegger's philosophy is influenced by its historical period and context but argues that, however inflammatory, Heidegger's rhetoric cannot be simply reduced to crude Nazi jingoism. This book is a genuinely philosophical approach to the Heidegger controversy and a much-needed re-examination of his ideas and influences.

Heidegger and Nazism

Heidegger and Nazism
Author: Víctor Farías
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780877228301

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The first book to document Heidegger's close connections to Nazism-now available to a new generation of students

Heidegger and the Jews

Heidegger and the Jews
Author: Donatella Di Cesare
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-08-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1509503846

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Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger’s involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. The recent publication of his Black Notebooks has reignited fierce debate on the subject. These thousand-odd pages of jotted observations profoundly challenge our image of the quiet philosopher’s exile in the Black Forest, revealing the shocking extent of his anti-Semitism for the first time. For much of the philosophical community, the Black Notebooks have been either used to discredit Heidegger or seen as a bibliographical detail irrelevant to his thought. Yet, in this new book, renowned philosopher Donatella Di Cesare argues that Heidegger’s “metaphysical anti-Semitism” was a central part of his philosophical project. Within the context of the Nuremberg race laws, Heidegger felt compelled to define Jewishness and its relationship to his concept of Being. Di Cesare shows that Heidegger saw the Jews as the agents of a modernity that had disfigured the spirit of the West. In a deeply disturbing extrapolation, he presented the Holocaust as both a means for the purification of Being and the Jews’ own “self-destruction”: a process of death on an industrialized scale that was the logical conclusion of the acceleration in technology they themselves had brought about. Situating Heidegger’s anti-Semitism firmly within the context of his thought, this groundbreaking work will be essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy and history as well as the many readers interested in Heidegger’s life, work, and legacy.

Representing the Holocaust

Representing the Holocaust
Author: Dominick LaCapra
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501705075

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Defying comprehension, the tragic history of the Holocaust has been alternately repressed and canonized in postmodern Western culture. Recently our interpretation of the Holocaust has been the center of bitter controversies, from debates over Paul de Man's collaborationist journalism and Martin Heidegger’s Nazi past to attempts by some historians to downplay the Holocaust’s significance. A major voice in current historiographical discussions, Dominick LaCapra brings a new clarity to these issues as he examines the intersections between historical events and the theory through which we struggle to understand them.In a series of essays—three published here for the first time—LaCapra explores the problems faced by historians, critics, and thinkers who attempt to grasp the Holocaust. He considers the role of canon formation and the dynamic of revisionist historiography, as well as critically analyzing responses to the discovery of de Man’s wartime writings. He also discusses Heidegger’s involvement with National Socialism, and he sheds light on postmodernist obsessions with such concepts as loss, agora, dispossession, deferred meaning, and the sublime. Throughout, LaCapra demonstrates that psychoanalysis is not merely a psychology of the individual but that its concepts have sociocultural dimensions and can help us perceive the relationship between the present and the past. Many of our efforts to comprehend the Holocaust, he shows, continue to suffer from the traumatizing effects of its events and require a "working through" of that trauma if we are to gain a more profound understanding of the meaning of the Holocaust.

Heidegger and "the Jews"

Heidegger and
Author: Jean François Lyotard
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780816618576

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Jean-Francois Lyotard's contribution to the debate, Heidegger and 'the Jews, ' is a marked departure from the standard fare. In the first of the two interrelated essays, 'the Jews, ' Leotard quickly establishes the theme of the entire text, placing 'the Jews' in lower case, plural, and in quotation marks to represent the outsiders, the nonconformists: the artists, anarchists, blacks, homeless, Arabs, etc. --and the Jews; as an alien and dangerous disruption, they represent an 'other' to be excised from the West's dream of unbounded fulfillment and development.

Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust

Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust
Author: Alan Michman
Publisher: Humanity Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781573923743

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Focuses on a neglected aspect of the Heidegger controversy: the question of Martin Heidegger's relationship to the industrialization of death as symbolized by Auschwitz. Contributors seek to comprehend the meaning of Heidegger's post-war silence about the Holocaust, as well as the meaning of his several explicit references to the Extermination, in the light of his preoccupation with the nihilism that he believed to be the hallmark of our technological world. Essays reflect the editors' concern to avoid both censorship and partisanship in their selections--resulting in a wide diversity of viewpoints, and the full spectrum of views, that have arisen in the course of the ongoing Heidegger debate.

Heidegger's Black Notebooks

Heidegger's Black Notebooks
Author: Andrew J. Mitchell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231544383

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From the 1930s through the 1970s, the philosopher Martin Heidegger kept a running series of private writings, the so-called Black Notebooks. The recent publication of the Black Notebooks volumes from the war years have sparked international controversy. While Heidegger’s engagement with National Socialism was well known, the Black Notebooks showed for the first time that this anti-Semitism was not merely a personal resentment. They contain not just anti-Semitic remarks, they show Heidegger incorporating basic tropes of anti-Semitism into his philosophical thinking. In them, Heidegger tried to assign a philosophical significance to anti-Semitism, with “the Jew” or “world Judaism” cast as antagonist in his project. How, then, are we to engage with a philosophy that, no matter how significant, seems contaminated by anti-Semitism? This book brings together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss the ramifications of the Black Notebooks for philosophy and the humanities at large. Bettina Bergo, Robert Bernasconi, Martin Gessmann, Sander Gilman, Peter E. Gordon, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Michael Marder, Eduardo Mendieta, Richard Polt, Tom Rockmore, Peter Trawny, and Slavoj Žižek discuss issues including anti-Semitism in the Black Notebooks and Heidegger’s thought more broadly, such as German conceptions of Jews and Judaism, Heidegger’s notions of metaphysics, and anti-Semitism’s entanglement with Heidegger’s views on modernity and technology, grappling with material as provocative as it is deplorable. In contrast to both those who seek to exonerate Heidegger and those who simply condemn him, and rather than an all-or-nothing view of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism, they urge careful reading and rereading of his work to turn Heideggerian thought against itself. These measured and thoughtful responses to one of the major scandals in the history of philosophy unflinchingly take up the tangled and contested legacy of Heideggerian thought.

Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust

Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust
Author: Alan Milchman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

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This volume focuses on Martin Heidegger's relationship, as a person and as a thinker, to the industrialization of death as symbolized by the smokestacks at Auschwitz. The contributors seek a rationale for his postwar silence on the Holocaust and his references to the Extermination.

Heidegger's Silence

Heidegger's Silence
Author: Berel Lang
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801433108

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Preface p. ix Chapter 1 From the Jewish Question to the ""Jewish Question"": a History of Silence p. 1 Chapter 2 The ""Jewish Ouestion"" in Heidegger's Post-Holocaust p. 13 Chapter 3 Heidegger When the Jewish Question Still Was p. 31 Chapter 4 Inside and outside Heidegger's Antisemitism p. 61 Chapter 5 Heidegger and the Very Thought of Philosophy p. 83 Appendix: A Conversation about Heidegger with Eduard Baumgarten p. 101 Notes p. 113 Index p. 127.

Heidegger and the Holocaust

Heidegger and the Holocaust
Author: Alan Milchman
Publisher: Humanity Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781573926201

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