From: "Stuart Elden" <stuart.elden-AT-clara.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Martin Heidegger the intellectual mentor of the left
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 06:54:33 -0000


This is an interesting discussion. Whatever Sartre's flaws, he does seem to
me to hit the nail on the head in Critique de la raison dialectique:-

"The case of Heidegger is too complex for me to discuss here" (p. 26 n)

On reading Heidegger: "One would have to _read_ him, to grasp the meaning of
the sentences one by one. And there is no longer any Marxist, to my
knowledge, who is still capable of doing this" (p. 42).

It's regrettable that in this work, when Sartre seemingly recognises all the
limitations of L'etre et le neant, he doesn't return to Heidegger in order
to correct the problems of his earlier reading.

I wonder whether Henri Lefebvre is the closest of the major twentieth
century Marxists to a careful reading, appropriation, and radical critique
of Heidegger. There may be others, but it seems to me that Lefebvre is
certainly neglected.

Stuart




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