[lit-ideas] Why did then Heidegger have to worship these pack of mediocrities in brown shirts?
- From: palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:10:03 +0200
is it just because he wanted to save his university career? sexual favors
ho owed? a minor sycophancy case?
plain idiocy?
he liked people with moustache?
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:03 AM, cblists@xxxxxxxx <cblists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> A not insignificant element in my own response to the 'Nazi Heidegger'
> question was the attitude of the Nazis themselves towards Heidegger.
>
> Heidegger's philosophy was scorned by Nazi 'ideologists', and Heidegger
> himself was viewed as someone who merely played at being a Nazi. Here is
> what some of the Nazis close to the center of power thought of Heidegger
> and his work (as reported by Ruediger Safranski in _Ein Mesiter aus
> Deutschland: Heidegger und seine Zeit_):
>
> To Erich Jaensch (psychologist), Heidegger was a "gefaehricher
> Schizophrener" [dangerous schizophrenic]; Heidegger's works were
> "psychopathologische Dokumente", his thought was at the core
> "talmudisch-rabulistisch" - "Banalitaeten mit dem Schein von
> Bedeutsamkeiten" [banalities with the *appearance* of meaning]. Jaensch
> warned that Heidegger would quickly 'change his colours' should the Nazi
> revolution lose momentum.
>
> To Ernst Krieck (pretender to the role of 'official' philosopher of the
> Nazi movement), Heidegger's position was one of "metaphysischer Nihilismus"
> - "nichts darin von Volk und Staat, von Rasse und alle werten unseres
> nationalsozialistischen Weltbildes" [there's nothing in it about 'people'
> and 'state', about 'race' and all the values of our national-socialist
> world view].
>
> To Walter Gross ("Leiter des Rassenpolitischen Amtes" [leader of the
> department for racial politics] of the NSDAP), Heidegger's version of
> national socialism contained "so gut wie gar keine . . .
> nationalsozialistisch brauchbaren Elemente" [in effect absolutely no
> elements useful to national-socialism].
>
> The Nazis wanted Heidegger 'onside' because of his international
> reputation; but his philosophical 'program' was viewed with mistrust and
> suspicion. Far from seeing Heidegger's 'shadowy generalities' as 'ideally
> appropriate', Krieck warned that ultimately Heidegger would drive the
> German people into the 'saving arms of the church'. Heidegger was, in the
> opinion of Krieck and others, simply not the man for the task of "der
> Bewegung einen geistigen und ethischen Kern zu schaffen" [producing a
> spiritual and ethical core for the movement]. As great as the Nazi's need
> for 'an overarching philosophical system' may have been, Heidegger was most
> definitely not seen by them as the man to supply it.
>
> Chris Bruce
> Kiel, Germany
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