[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 5/14/06, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yoshie points to Domenico Losurdo's HEIDEGGER AND THE IDEOLOGY OF WAR. I
> think that the reference is apt given that the book also analyzes Carl
> Schmitt, the current darling of the postmodern left and of the Bush
> ideological legal apparatchiks.  The book (I once browsed through it at
> Labyrinth Books but I haven't read it) seems to make some good points.
> Jingoism, war fever, and love of authority can take hold of the most
> abstract philosophers and spread among them like a virus (a meme?).  Such
> attitudes often motivate their philosophies and play a small role in
> mobilizing the intelligentsia in their task of justifying the powerful.

Besides, if Heidegger, why not Bataille?  A lot more fun to read!

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Yoshie
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