[lit-ideas] Re: Heil Heidegger?

Well we seem to have ourselves an interesting pingpong match here. On one end of
the table we have Phil who may willing to accept the view that Heidegger was a
bastard but believes his philosophical work is not fascistic. At the other end,
we have Robert who claims that Heidegger's philosophical work is fascistic and
(because?) he was a bastard. (Perhaps conversely, as well.)I suggest the first
match play around the view that a phenomenological ontology of Dasein is
fascistic. Robert to serve ... 

Walter O
MUN


Quoting Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Robert Paul wrote:
> 
> "For, in the case of Heidegger, his acceptance and support of National
> Socialism is not irrelevant to his work, for his work is an expression
> of that very sort of Fascism, indeed, so much so that without his
> acceptance and support of the political and social policies of such
> Fascism, his work would not be what it is."
> 
> The problem, as I see it, is that the above is not philosophical.  It
> may very well be true, but I can't find a way of articulating it as a
> philosophical point.  I find no contradiction in defending Heidegger's
> philosophical arguments and believing he was a bastard.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Phil Enns
> Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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