Heidegger

[Vaska Tumir]

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> But: may I remember you at the fact that he refused an answer to Karl
Jaspers > und Hannah Arendt (who was his
> girl-friend in the twenties when she studied at him) when they both asked
him
> what he thought about the Holocaust after the war, and why he didn't say
> anything about it during the Third Reich? I repeat: he refused an answer
> still after the war when it was completely "undangereous" for him to
answer.
> After the war his philosophy became more and moe "mystical"

And is was a 'mystical' kind of answer that H. eventually gave to Jaspers --
who blasted them him back in disgust, making it clear that it was exactly
the same mystical or quasi-mystical philosophisizing that had been so
seductive in the Nazi program itself.  After that, Jaspers cooled it and the
two only exchanged birthday greetings from time to time.  A similar thing
happened when Marcuse wrote to Heidegger.  Marcuse, of course, was less
willing to accommodate H's evasions than Jaspers had (to a point) been.

There's an oldish book on Heideggar by Pierre Bourdieu, perhaps by now
translated into English, and well worth the few hours it takes to read.

Vaska



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