Subject: Re: Heidegger in Germany
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:10:56 -0000



Michael Eldred wrote:


>H.'s entanglement with NS is used as an excuse to obstruct
>any serious consideration of H.'s philosophical question.

I think this is spot on. One thing I've noticed is that the importance of
Heidegger in the thought of some thinkers in whom it might not be
immediately obvious (i.e. Foucault or Lefebvre, rather than, say, Derrida or
Sartre) is often only noted by those who think they can damn by association.

Whilst H's association with NS needs to be thought, so too does the purpose
to which it is put by commentators. William Spanos' Heidegger and Criticism
has a really interesting final chapter on the complex relations between
Heidegger and Nazism, America(n critics) and Vietnam.

Best wishes

Stuart



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