[lit-ideas] Re: Re Heidegger for Lawrence
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 18:40:43 -0800
You must surely accept that Heidegger engaged in Gleichschaltung. You must
know that while he was rector he urged students and faculty to trust not in
themselves but in the Fuhrer. This trusting in the Fuhrer expose is in both
Farias & Fayes books -- it is part of what this fuss is all about.
Lawrence
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Re Heidegger for Lawrence
Lawrence Helm wrote:
"This is one of the places that some thinkers are seeing an
association between his philosophy and Totalitarianism. Do not trust
your own reason. Instead listen to the ubermensche and then 'go
along'."
I cannot think of a text where Heidegger suggested that we should not
trust reason, much less listen to another human being instead. I
would be curious to know if Lawrence can provide texts to support his
claim.
There are, of course, many places where Heidegger urges us to listen,
but the texts are quite clear that Heidegger is not talking about
listening to people. Instead, Heidegger calls us to listen to what
speaks to us through the world, through objects and things. For
Heidegger, Truth and reason are not the products of human activity but
rather a response to what is given to us in the world. This is the
anti-humanism I find refreshing in Heidegger, as an antidote to, for
example, the divinization of human subjectivity that one finds in
Sartre.
Sincerely,
Phil Enns
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