Neu :: Wolin: The Politics of Being. The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger

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„Martin Heidegger’s ties to Nazism have tarnished his stature as one of the towering figures of twentieth-century philosophy. The publication of the Black Notebooks in 2014, which revealed the full extent of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism and enduring sympathy for National Socialism, only inflamed the controversy. Richard Wolin’s The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger has played a seminal role in the international debate over the consequences of Heidegger’s Nazism. In this edition, the author provides a new preface addressing the effect of the Black Notebooks on our understanding of the relationship between politics and philosophy in Heidegger’s work. Building on his pathbreaking interpretation of the philosopher’s political thought, Wolin demonstrates that philosophy and politics cannot be disentangled in Heidegger’s oeuvre. Völkisch ideological themes suffuse even his most sublime philosophical treatises. Therefore, despite Heidegger’s profundity as a thinker, his critique of civilization is saturated with disturbing anti-democratic and anti-Semitic leitmotifs and claims.“ #Wolin #Heidegger #Nazism

Wolin, Richard, The Politics of Being. The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger. New York: Columbia University Press 2016, ISBN 978-0-231-54302-6.

Tim Black on Heidegger’s „Schwarze Hefte“

„Heidegger’s champions are right. He needs to be read today regardless of the revelations in black. But he needs to be read, not because he is right, but because his thinking is, in a sense, our thinking. He needs to be read because his profound rejection of modernity has proved too resonant to be ignored. He needs to be read because his stripe of anti-Semitism is in the process of being rehabilitated. He needs to be read because he needs to be reckoned with.“ #TimBlack #Heidegger #SchwarzeHefte