Heidegger

[ChrisD(RJ)]

Poor woman. What a sucker. He was wretch. So was Russell, btw, but far more 
charming and entertaining. Quine was also a jerk, a real hollow man, ever 
try to read his autobiography? A real behaviorist nightmare. I went there 
and I wrote this. No inner life at all. Skinner's autobiography, by 
contrast, is fascinating, there was in interesting guy, rather odd, tried to

raise his daughter in a Skinner box. James and Dewey were wonderful people, 
by contrast, and by all accounts so is John Rawls.

jks
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'He was wretch'? You're losing control of your articles, Justin. Maybe
you're becoming Russian? :)

By all accounts, Heidegger possessed a lot of charisma. His students, at any
rate, seem to have been magnetized. Arendt wrote about, while she was still
in Gymnasium, rumors were spreading about "a hidden king" teaching
philosophy in a way that was actually relevant -- and this was before H had
published anything other than his dissertation.

I think there was something slightly sado-masochistic in the
Arendt-Heidegger relationship. She was just ecstatic when H finally came
grovelling to her in 1949.

While we're on the subject of famous dickhead intellectuals, Marx was kind
of a creep. And Arendt called Adorno the most despicable person she had ever
met in her life. When she first met him, she immediately after told her
then-husband Gunter Stern, "Der kommt uns nicht zu Hause!" "That one's not
stepping foot in our house!"

Chris Doss
The Russia Journal