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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>


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