From: "Ruy Gardnier" <rnobrega-AT-centroin.com.br>
Subject: Re: biography
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 14:54:48 -0200


Lacoue-Labarthe's La Fiction du politique is a real good book on Heidegger &
nazism. It tries to put into perspective where H. goes together with nazism
and where it does not. It's a good account also on how nazism is avant tout
an esthetism, and after a political project. It has a doubtful thesis,
however: that WWII is a "cesure" for Heidegger, and his purification is
identifiable on his relation to techne comparing Introduction to metaphysics
and his later works. I guess the main point is not made, but the account on
nazism and esthetics and philosophy and politics is great.

And yes, the reading of Heidegger is necessary not only to understand the
ways to contemporary philosophy, but also to understand the essence of
totalitarian thought.

ruy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Oleg Koefoed" <khora-AT-city.dk>
To: <deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: biography


> 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.
>