Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:10:47 +0100
From: artefact-AT-t-online.de (Michael Eldred)
Subject: Re: Martin Heidegger the intellectual mentor of the left


Cologne 04-Feb-2002

Hi Jan,
Interesting.

Could be about time for the Left to start to learn from Heidegger.
Could be about time for Heidegger to start to learn from the Left.

The question of value, the valuableness of beings, cannot be adequately
approached without looking at economic phenomena -- something which Heidegger
consistently does not do. Pace Heidegger, life is also a business, just that
Heidegger remains theological in his approach to the phenomenon of human
living. Aristotle is a better teacher for this question, but care must be taken
not to lose sight of the question of being.

And the Left has always already assumed its moral-political stance before a
philosophical question has any chance at all of survival or even germination.
The Left has not yet even learned its philosophical lessons from Marx.

For Plato and Aristotle, the germ of the political is the exchange of the
products of labour.

Michael
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Jan Straathof schrieb   Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:22:46 +0100:

> justice, at last ......  ;-)
>
> ---------------------
> fwd: <nettime> Interview with Michael Hardt in Porto Alegro
>
> [snip]
>
> - - Do you think that after September 11 the left has come to be victim of
> revenge against anti-Americanism?
>
> Soon after that event, the rightwing press in the USA begun to say that the
> antiglobalization movements were as bad as terrorism. Four articles in
> rightwing weekly magazines said that I, Antonio Negri and our book Empire
> were responsible for September 11.
>
> - - What were the arguments?
>
> First there was the National Review, then the New Republic, New Criterium
> and the Weekly Standard. This last one, by the way, does not mention only
> us, but also says that Martin Heidegger is the intellectual mentor of the
> left (in the articles: The Imperial Left: Why American academics love Hardt
> and Negri's "Empire" and Postmodern Jihad; What Osama bin Laden learned
> from the left). Clearly Heidegger was never a left-wing intellectual. All
> this was the product of a weak understanding of what we wrote and is
> ideological in the worst sense. The ideological right saw an opportunity to
> use all that patriotism to attack its enemies. But I think that we have
> already
> overcome this problem.
>
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