From: "Oleg Koefoed" <khora-AT-city.dk>
Subject: Re: biography
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 17:09:50 +0100


Heidegger's influence on French philosophy after 1945 can hardly be overestimated - this may not 'clean' him in the eyes of the ideological puritans, but it does make it necessary to read him, alongside Spinoza and Leibniz (does anyone blame Leibniz for being christian? I personally don't consider myself one, yet I find Leibniz' monadology one of the most inspiring creations in the history of philosophy), in order to understand the foundations of the philosophies that we live by.

Heidegger may have been, as you say, a nazi - but the impression of the subject that you represent by writing this is the same one that Deleuze and Guattari fought so ardently to overcome. Ironic. 

Heidegger's words were not members of the nazi party, and I will dare to read them without fear of becoming a nazi myself.

O.