From: "Henk van Tuijl" <hvtuijl-AT-xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Re: Denial
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:35:58 +0200


> >From: artefact-AT-t-online.de (Michael Eldred)
> >Reply-To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> >To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> >Subject: Re: Denial
> >Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:51:49 +0200
> >
> >Cologne 23-Sep-2003
> >
> >Henk van Tuijl schrieb  Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:23:04 +0200:
> >Henk,
> >
> >Your remark above ("it is pure sophistry to put the question of being in
> >relation to Heidegger's Nazism") is very interesting coming from your
> >mouth.

You are shedding a new light on my discussion with Michael ...

... are you referring to my anti-Heidegger years? It is true that I am no
longer interested in all the horrible deeds Heidegger might or might not
have done and the horrible thoughts he might or might not have thought. I
just protest occasionaly when someone tries to downplay Heidegger's Nazism.

> >The well-worn strategy of using the brown brush to tar Heidegger's
thinking
> >relies heavily on just that -- suggestively putting the question of being
> >into
> >relation with Heidegger's Nazism.

Eh, yes ...

> >It saves a whole lot of work and especially a whole lot of thinking just
> >suggesting the relation.

It depends ... unless you mean by "suggesting" that that is all there is to
it.

> >But if there is no relation ("it is pure sophistry"), then Heidegger's
> >Nazism is
> >completely irrelevant, because the only reason the man Heidegger is
> >important at
> >all is that he was a thinker. Then we'd have to do something with this
> >thinker's
> >thinking.

Indeed, I have something to do with his thinking. It keeps coming back to
me - even when I read Kant. However, I should add that - for me -
Heidegger's thinking ends with his Kantbuch and return to Freiburg around
1930.

> >Adorno has it much easier. The media (newspapers, radio, new books, even
> >some
> >TV) recently were packed with pieces to commemorate his hundredth
> >birthday,
> >but
> >even then it was pointed out that Adorno does not have the philosophical
> >weight
> >compared to some other German thinkers.

They were probably referring to Habermas ... <g>

Henk





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