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

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The heart is a mysterious place, and I would not judge
anyone for her commitments. For all that, it would
give me pause, as a  Jew and a leftistis, to know that
my adored, hwoever brilliant, was a "mild
anti-semite." As a Jew and a leftist, my erstwhile
beloved's joining the Nazi Party would be beyond what
I could handle. jks    

--- "Chris Doss"  <nomorebounces at mail.ru> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> ---
> 
> 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...
> 
> 
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