From: "Prof. Dr. Rafael Capurro" <capurro-AT-hbi-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: Heidegger in Germany Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:07:19 +0100 henk, I just wrote a comment to Michael on this _necessity_ I think your are really taking a sentence out of the context (of this particulary of this page (!), as well as of the whole article). "Clinical" is a good word, like _cool_ H. is looking for the _context_ within which _racism_ appears (is _necessary_ embedded). This context is a historical one, i.e. its _necessity_ is of the kind of _once given this and this_ then... But this is a kind of _logical_ necessity_ not of an empirical one. And: it is, again, a _weak_ explanation. it is, of course, nothing H. is agreeing to or propagating etc. it is, the vollendete sinnlosigkeit: seinsverlassenheit cheers rafael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: h.vantuijl-AT-kub.nl <h.vantuijl-AT-kub.nl> An: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu <heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Datum: Mittwoch, 9. Dezember 1998 15:06 Betreff: Re: Heidegger in Germany >Michael, > >Perhaps I should be more explicit. There is a difference between being a >racist in the simple sense that one belongs to the own-people-first >club, and all the horrible forms this may take. And being a racist in >the sense that one belongs to those who say: "own people first as long >as...". >I agree with you that Heidegger does not belong to the first kind. As >Hannah Arendt says, he is only one of those many little men in the Third >Reich with their own little schemes. >The little scheme Heidegger indulges in in the Koinon-essays is >analysing the situation in his days and coming to the conclusion that >under those circumstances the cultivation of race (it sounds so ugly >when one calls racism by its name) is a necessary measure. >I agree with you that Heidegger does not like the circumstances from his >philosophical point of view. Nevertheless, without the blinking of an >eye he maintains that in times like these racism is a necessity. >Mind you, he does not say that others (the bad guys) deem it necessary, >or even that it is unavoidably or regrettably necessary or something >like that - no, Heidegger judges it clinically a "necessary measure". > >Henk > > > > --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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