[lit-ideas] Re: Heil Heidegger?


--- On Mon, 2/11/09, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Summary of article:
> 
> Heidegger was a supporter of Nazism
> His writings are hard to understand
> Therefore ban his books and block any future publications

Wow indeed. A valid inductive syllogism. (Almost.)

No, his books shouldn't be banned. Because where one bans books one ultimately 
bans people. So, cut out the middle-man - simply ban Heide.

D
Didn't Heide also do the dirty on Husserl? 
Karl called him a "swindler" both intellectually (ripping off Husserl) and in 
his careerist posturings
But then, even, or especially, in totalitarian regimes, demand creates supply 
(of fatuous Hegelian metaphysics)
For me, anyone truly sympathetic to Wittgenstein's POV should despise Heide 
(but of course I may be wrong in this; Wittgenstein had a strange softspot for 
Soviet totalitarianism after all and a take on anti-Semitism that is initially 
shocking to certain current liberal pieties).
 



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