From the 1930s through the 1970s, the philosopher Martin Heidegger kept a running series of private writings, the so-called Black Notebooks. The recent publication of the Black Notebooks volumes from the war years have sparked international controversy. While Heidegger’s engagement with National Socialism was well known, the Black Notebooks showed for the first time that this anti-Semitism was not merely a personal resentment. They contain not just anti-Semitic remarks, they show Heidegger incorporating basic tropes of anti-Semitism into his philosophical thinking. In them, Heidegger tried to assign a philosophical significance to anti-Semitism, with “the Jew” or “world Judaism” cast as antagonist in his project.
How, then, are we to engage with a philosophy that, no matter how significant, seems contaminated by anti-Semitism? This book brings together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss the ramifications of the Black Notebooks for philosophy and the humanities at large. Bettina Bergo, Robert Bernasconi, Martin Gessmann, Sander Gilman, Peter E. Gordon, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Michael Marder, Eduardo Mendieta, Richard Polt, Tom Rockmore, Peter Trawny, and Slavoj Žižek discuss issues including anti-Semitism in the Black Notebooks and Heidegger’s thought more broadly, such as German conceptions of Jews and Judaism, Heidegger’s notions of metaphysics, and anti-Semitism’s entanglement with Heidegger’s views on modernity and technology, grappling with material as provocative as it is deplorable. In contrast to both those who seek to exonerate Heidegger and those who simply condemn him, and rather than an all-or-nothing view of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism, they urge careful reading and rereading of his work to turn Heideggerian thought against itself. These measured and thoughtful responses to one of the major scandals in the history of philosophy unflinchingly take up the tangled and contested legacy of Heideggerian thought.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Editors’ Introduction
1. The Universal and Annihilation: Heidegger’s Being-Historical Anti-Semitism, by Peter Trawny
2. Cosmopolitan Jews vs. Jewish Nomads: Sources of a Trope in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, by Sander L. Gilman
3. Metaphysical Anti-Semitism and Worldlessness: On World Poorness, World Forming, and World Destroying, by Eduardo Mendieta
4. “Sterben sie?”: The Problem of Dasein and “Animals” . . . of Various Kinds, by Bettina Bergo
5. Inception, Downfall, and the Broken World: Heidegger Above the Sea of Fog, by Richard Polt
6. The Other “Jewish Question”, by Michael Marder
7. Heidegger and National Socialism: He Meant What He Said, by Martin Gessmann
8. “The Supreme Will of the People”: What Do Heidegger’s Black Notebooks Reveal?, by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
9. Prolegomena to Any Future Destruction of Metaphysics: Heidegger and the Schwarze Hefte, by Peter E. Gordon
10. Heidegger After Trawny: Philosophy or Worldview?, by Tom Rockmore
11. Another Eisenmenger? On the Alleged Originality of Heidegger’s Antisemitism, by Robert Bernasconi
12. The Persistence of Ontological Difference, by Slavoj Žižek
Notes
Contributors
Index
Über den Autor
Andrew J. Mitchell is professor of philosophy at Emory University. He is the author of Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling (2010) and The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger (2015) and the translator of Martin Heidegger’s Bremen and Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking (2012) and On Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: The 1934-35 Seminar and Interpretive Essays (2014). He was the organizer of the first U.S. conference on the Notebooks from which many of these essays are drawn.Peter Trawny teaches at the Bergische University Wuppertal, where he is the director of the Martin-Heidegger-Institute. He is the editor of several volumes of the Martin-Heidegger-Gesamtausgabe, including the Black Notebooks. His English-language publications include Freedom to Fail: Heidegger’s Anarchy (2015) and Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy (2015), translated by Andrew J. Mitchell.Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
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