[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 5/7/06, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>  My nomination for greatest 20th century philosopher is Wittgenstein. I
> think the only reason he is not hot is because his work debunks most
> academic endeavors.

Humanities Abstracts 1984–Present
1051 results for Heidegger
745 results for Wittgenstein

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1980-present +
Information Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1980-present +
Information Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1980-present
3,947 results for Heidegger
2,871 results for Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein is pretty hot among scholars, though not as hot as
Heidegger, probably for the reason you mention.  No matter -- the
masses prefer Wittgenstein to Heidegger:

Google
6,540,000 for Heidegger
9,560,000 for Wittgenstein

On 5/9/06, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> asked:
"Somebody tell me what this stuff [Heidegger's thoughts on death: "an
impassioned freedom towards death"; death is "possible at any moment";
etc.] is good for?"

Good for preparations for war (cf. Domenico Losurdo, _Heidegger and
the Ideology of War: Community, Death, and the West_, 2001,
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1573929107/002-8046937-0870429?v=glance&n=283155>)

 . . . or suicide bombing.

-- 
Yoshie
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