Subject: RE: Epistemology & Politics Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:15:03 +0200 From: "Bakker, R.B.M. de" <R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Stuart Elden [mailto:stuartelden-AT-btconnect.com] Verzonden: dinsdag 16 september 2003 16:16 Aan: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU Onderwerp: RE: Epistemology & Politics We all know Heidegger was a Nazi. What some of us are trying to research is what kind of Nazi, how this impacted on his thought, and how his thought impacted on his politics, among other questions. I'm writing a book on Heidegger, language and the politics of calculation. It's a much more important and complicated matter than these generalisations suggest. For one thing, as should be remembered in reading The Age of the World Picture, the context was set by the Nazi Four Year Plan, as Theodore Kisiel has recently shown (in Companion to Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics). Stuart, A friendly advice: You're writing on H and language. Would it not be better to begin with an analysis of the proposition "Heidegger was a Nazi", and not take an unquestioned 'fact' for granted, and build your whole project on it? It is for instance also a possible answer to the question "Do you admit that H was a nazi"?, a question of which i would like to warn too. regards rene --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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