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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>




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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


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