[lbo-talk] Blackburn on Arendt and Heidegger's letters

[" Chris Doss "]

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu :

It seemed that poor, deluded,
and Jewish Arendt remained fixated all her life on her sometime teacher and
lover Martin Heidegger, even after marrying, and even after realizing that
he was an unrepentant anti-Semitic nightmare, pale in his sins only by
comparison with his appalling wife Elfride, whose main claim to fame, apart
from her marriage to the Nazi magus, seems to have been driving sick and
pregnant women into laboring for the Reich.
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What a load of horse patootie. Heidegger was a mild anti-Semite at worst. He had the political savvy of a 13-year-old, but he was not a vicious anti-Semite. Elfride, on the other hand...