[lbo-talk] Heidegger

[B.]

If Heidegger repudiated the Nazis, then someone should
write a letter posthaste to John Gray, who is not a
Marxist, socialist, or PoMo, and from whose book I
quoted (_Straw Dogs_) about, and I quote, 
"Heidegger's never-renounced engagement with Nazism."

_Straw Dogs_ also mentions Heidegger's breaking of
ties to Jewish students and colleagues, like his
former teacher and friend Edmund Husserl. Page 50 of
the 2007 Vintage paperback edition of _Straw Dogs_,
which was initially released in 2002, is where it's
at. In the 5 years since the book's first appearance
Gray hasn't changed his story. Gray is Prof. of
European Thought at the London School of Economics. I
would *think* he would know what he is writing about,
though one never knows by virtue of academic
appointment alone (e.g. Douglas Feith as professor at
Georgetown). Gray isn't the kind of person to
unnecessarily slime Heidegger from what I can tell; he
admires Schopenhauer.

-B.

Chris Doss wrote: 

"Wait a second here. Heidegger did in fact repudiate
the Nazis, as I am sure you know, with the statement
(paraphrasing from memory) that they had vulgarized
and corrupted the essence of National Socialism,
turning in into something bad."