Heidegger and the Question of National Socialism, 2007 Bernhard Radloff published an outstanding book in 2007, which has not come into paperback. But he provides a thorough synopsis of his reading of Heidegger and politics as a response to two critical reviews of his book. ----------------------------------------- July 7, 2014 Radloff’s useful discussion doesn’t intend to capture the general context of Heidegger’s reading of his times; rather, it pertains largely to Heidegger’s critique of modernization during those times—which is not a wholesale rejection of modernity! Heidegger began his work without anticipation of the 1930s that actually happened. Of course, no one anticipated the Depression and rise of reactionary totalitarianism. His work had to be forever changed by his experience of his times; yet, it originates in his work of the 1920s—though the originary potential of thinking is not purely biographical. Heidegger never thought that his thinking was The New Basis for anything. That belongs to his legacy, appropriated validly by future readers. But his 1920s work was essential to where his turn to teaching after the war led him: teaching for new generations, teaching to the future that he could not envision. (Newly emergent television is far from the inimaginable Internet.) The work that he caused to be translated into English before he died is the work that he regarded as primary to his accomplishment and for the future. What came later to translation (his lectures to ears of his times) are transcripts of presentations thought by him in light of his written work (and those transcripts are surely not simple totalities of all that he said in each course). Each lecture transcript is a clarity of topical pathmaking that each course enacted. Altogether, that work—written work published and transcripts of lectures—is the basis for appropriately understanding how HE understood his life, as philosopher and as teacher of thinking. I want to dwell with his sense of the 1930s beyond what I’ve discussed through my long posting elsewhere, which was linked here, October, 2013: “Heidegger’s leadership.” My expanded project for later already has a Website location (below), but the project may not go beyond my earlier discussion until later this year, in light of many discussions I’ve had with Heidegger scholars other than myself. My expanded project has the same title as my earlier discussion. The Website location is: “Heidegger and reading political times” gedavis/re/harpt00.html
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