On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 13:32:30 -0800 Adam Stevens
<a_ste at uclink4.berkeley.edu> writes:
>A
>>>
>>> Heidegger was a paid up member of the NSDAP from the 1930s right to
>the
>>> end of the war. As rector of Freiburg University he wanted to
>>> subordinate the study of the sciences to the principles of national
>>> socialism.
. . . .
>>> Yes, he has a lot to teach us about the way that scientific enquiry
>can
>>> be crushed under the iron heel of fascist ideology, but not much to
>>> teach us about science itself.
>>
>>Excellent points, Jim.
>
>
>I have found this thread very interesting, though I don't have time to
>really contribute since I'm in the middle of final exams. On the
>above
>point though, I'd highly recommend "Heidegger and Nazism," by Victor
>Farias,
>Temple University Pres, Philidelphia.
>
>
I would also add Hugo Ott's _Martin Heidegger: A Political Life, trans.
Allan Blunden (London: HarperCollins, 1993) which covers many of these
issues including his relations with Husserl and Arendt, his joining of
the Nazis, his rectorship at Freiburg and the like. Ott, who is
apparently
a Catholic, does seem to be excessively concerned with Heidegger's
anti-Catholicism, although Heidegger's Catholic background did have
a profound impact on his intellectual development and the nature of
his career.
Jim Farmelant
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