By the way, I found Blackburn's review amusing ('Hooray for Heidegger! Being rules!'), but fully endorse those who are sick to the back teeth of the totality = totalitarianism configuration. I haven't read any Blackburn apart from this, but his wry put-down of Hegel seems to offer nothing ("There may sometimes be some use in the Hegelian idea of a concrete universal such as totalitarianism, a kind of abstract force or pattern always ready to re-emerge in human history, but then there may not be any use in it at all; details crowd in and differences require attention.") except a lapse into non-thought.
Simon
> From: "Chris Doss" <nomorebounces at mail.ru>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Heidegger, Blackburn
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:40:40 +0300
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>
>
> Arendt lived in Weimar Germany. I think she was
> perfectly aware that lots of people joined the Nazi
> Perty for reasons that did not involve
> anti-Semitism, among them careerism and having a
> cool uniform making it easier to pick up chicks.
> Heidegger joined because 1) he was an opportunist,
> 2) he was waiting for a movement to come around and
> save Germany and assumed the Nazis were it, and 3)
> he was a political imbecile and a selfish git.
>
> I think that Heidegger probably had an inchoate
> feeling that Jews were sort of yucky. So did most
> Germans (an Europeans in general) at that time. That
> hardly makes him into an abetter at Auschwitz.
>
> Maybe I'm testy about this because the
> anti-Semite-baiting in Russia gets sooooooooo
> tedious. Plus I remember the very inglorious
> "Heidegger wars" of the early 90s when various petty
> and mediocre French intellectuals and their American
> imitators were trying to score points on each other
> by brainlessly bashing Martin. That was a pretty
> disgusting period of intellectual history,
>
> ---
> 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
>
>
>
>
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