From: GEVANS613-AT-aol.com Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:32:33 EDT Subject: Rip van Winckle Jud: The point you are avoiding and the deflection tactics that you display remind me very much of the behaviour of a drug-adict or an alcoholic when the slightest threat to his habit is encountered. You don't wish to face up to the uncomfortable truth because you NEED Heidegger like some sort of weirdo postmodernist dependency-drug. The 'others' that you mention are in themselves a highly selective and anodyne bunch of critics. No mention is made of the hard-hitters Farias, Sheenan and the many others to be found on the Ereignis list for example. Forgetting about what any modern commentator says, whether they be sympathetic or hostile to Heidegger, the NAZIS THEMSELVES considered Heidegger to be the philosopher of National Socialism and a candidate for the position of Hitler's 'personal philosopher.' Now ask yourself this: Would any philosopher whose philosophy was inimical to Nazi doctrine be even considered for the position of Hitler's personal philosopher? Would any philosopher whose philosophy was inimical to Nazism even been allowed even to TEACH in Nazi Germany? Now only a dumb head-burier or somebody so butt-clenchingly obsessed with Heidegger as to excuse him of any hypocrisy would ignore this fact. Look at these facts again if your answer to this is that you personally fail to distinguish or be convinced that there is any evidence in the content of Heidegger's writings redolent of the Nazi nihilistic worldview, and mark no connection between Nazism and Heidegger's constant repetitive burgeoning Teutonic mysticism, and the identification of the German race as the inheritors of the Greek 'inception,' and his comic citing of the declensional and conjugational dyschezia that is the German language, which he portrays as being superior to any other as the natural language of philosophy on par with Ancient Greek itself. Someone like you who ignores the facts that the Nazis themselves made this representational connection, that Reichsminister Goebbels himself visited Freiburg to attend Heidegger's philosophical lectures, and that Heidegger responded to this recognition by poncing around in Nazi regalia, writing and delivering hymns to Hitler, and preening himself as Guest of Honour on Nazi Election Platforms. The bottom line? This time the Nazis were smarter that the genius from Sandwich - they could see the colligation and he can't. Sleep on Rip van Winkle! It matters not whether you are asleep or awake - there's no REAL thinking going on. Cheers, Jud. <A HREF="http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/ ">http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/</A> Jud Evans - ANALYTICAL INDICANT THEORY. <A HREF="http://uncouplingthecopula.freewebspace.com">http://uncouplingthecopula.freewebspace.com</A> --- StripMime Warning -- MIME attachments removed --- This message may have contained attachments which were removed. Sorry, we do not allow attachments on this list. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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