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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

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Von: h.vantuijl-AT-kub.nl <h.vantuijl-AT-kub.nl>
An: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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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
>
>
>
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