Subject: Re: Heidegger in Germany
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:49:32 -0800



Heidegger was member of the party after he becam rector apparently,

> First, didn't Heidegger join the party AFTER he assumed the rectorship?
As
> part of his politicisation/academic position, rather than the cause of
it.
> I'm fairly sure about this, but I can't provide verification. I've
checked
> Ott, but can't find the date immediately.

Heidegger supported the "resurgence" of Germany as the platform of Adolf
Hitler, 
Chancellor of the Weimar Republic in 1933, on April 23rd.
On May 3 and 4th, 1933, the local papers of Frieburg announced the
registration of Heidegger into the Nazi party. Ten months later Heidegger
was no longer a member of the NSDAP movement. During this time Heidegger
was rector at the  university of Freiburg. His writings began to include
references to _Kampf_ 

[is this struggle as in my struggle? Mien Kampf & did he read Mein Kampf.
Probably didn't or would not have made reference to the title or was it
published even?], 

and "military service" within the NSDAP where topics of science and 'being'
were discussed in his papers.  As rector of the university Heidegger
was asked or "demanded" by two professors to fire two other professors who
were "openly hostile" to the NSDAP. Heidegger failed to ask the professors
to resign, and later resigned as rector for several reasons. Afterwards the
philosopher began to criticize the ideology of the NSDAP for racism wherein
the thematic of the NSDAP_Blud und Bloden_ [blood and body] extolled a
basis for racial superiority regarding poetry. After this open criticism of
the NSDAP professor Heidegger was placed under watch-surveillance, his
publication rights were curtailed, and some of his classes were cancelled.
The Nazi's in 1944 proclaimed Heidegger the most "expendable" professor at
the Freiburg Univerisity faculty, and apparently he was sent to the Rhine
to dig trenches until he was drafted into the peoples militia. {from: David
Farrell Krell_General
Introduction: "The Question of Being", In: Martin Heidegger: Basic
Writings} Krell mentions that the NSDAP, through the Ministry of Culture, 
vigourously pressured professors to advance the Nazi ideology. 


> 
> Second: How do you read the passage in the Ister Hymn lectures (GA53)
where



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