Angelus Novus wrote:
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> Chris Doss:
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> > As if Heidegger's Nazism is more explicable by
> > reference to his philosophy as opposed to, oh, his
> > being a southern German in the 1930s.)
Both simple assertion of relationship and simple denial are probably grounded in a view of personality overestimating unity. For example, what one might call a person's "thinking" probably, in the case of any given philosopher, is rather broader in compas than his/her specific philosophical work. And the relationships among various aspects of his/her thought not necessarily coherent -- probably in fact the oppositer. About 30 years ago there was an article in CI entitled "Coherent Readers, Incoherent Poems" (or something like that). Probably any given reader's 'take' on a given text is rather more coherent than the text itself, whethere it is a poem or a philosophical work at issue.
Intellectual adherents (or 'fellow-travellers') of Naziism represent larege variation in formal philosophical commitments, though presumably the philsoophy each held was in some way "welcoming" of that political tendency while certainly not requiring allegiance to the Third Reich or to National Socialis .
Carrol
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> I love Richard Rorty's hilariously mean term for him:
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> Schwarzwald redneck.
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