File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0309, message 221


Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:45:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: That Pete <that_pete-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: H in the media


>From Bangkok's The Nation:

...

And finally there’s Heidegger, another loopy oddball. They say he was so inept
with tools that had he been assigned to build crosses in Jerusalem, Jesus would
have died of old age. But he was the greatest of them all in the thinking
department. He was the Mercedes of philosophers, even though he had a weird
light around him.

But there was just one tiny design fault. You see, old Heidegger was a Nazi,
not just a sympathiser but a rabid, Nazi Gold Card-carrying,
snitch-on-your-mates Nazi and went on being a Nazi even after Hitler had given
it up as a bad gig.

Have you noticed there are no women philosophers to speak of? Like hobbies,
philosophy is a sad, smelly, lonely, anorak, male thing. Smart women are just
too smart to be philosophers. When you think about it, it’s extraordinary how
little effect philosophy has had on sentient life.

Let’s face it, from Plato to Russell, you’d barely have noticed they ever
existed except for the fact that most of them were two coupons short of a
special offer.

In the last 100 years, Gandhi, Freud and Bob Dylan have been more influential
on the way we actually think and live than Sartre, Heidegger and Nietzsche and
his rabbit. After all, a Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your
mother.

If you never read their books, here’s the T-shirt version: Nietzsche killed God
because he wanted to be God; Sartre killed God so he wouldn’t feel guilty
sticking his hand up Juliette Greco’s skirt; and Heidegger killed God because
he thought Hitler could do a better job. 

...

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/page.news.php3?clid=12&theme=A&usrsess=1&id=100394

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