Heidegger (and Woodstock)

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Sun Apr 7 08:18:46 PDT 2002


On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 16:11:04 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:
> Thomas Seay wrote:
>
> >The "Beats" claimed Heidegger as one of their
> >inspirations and the effect, or perhaps association",
> >of Heidegger to the 60s generation seems apparent.
>
> Bob Fitch told a story of spying Michael Lerner reading Heidegger in
>
> Berkeley around 1968, and asking him "Why are you reading that Nazi
> gasbag?" Lerner replied that it was very important. The rest is
> history, or at least the politics of meaning.

Besides Sartre, didn't Herbert Marcuse play a significant role in introducing Heidegger to the '60s generation?

Jim F.


>
> Doug

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