Heidegger

[MichaelB]

i'd really love to know what you think heidegger's silence about his
political affiliations during the war have to do with his philosophy?

and what is Mystical about heidegger's thought after the turning?

you ask us to be critical, but give us nothing to believe that you
aren't merely tossing about positions you've read on the back sleeves
of various heidegger commentaries.

michael


--- KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
> I have the increasing impression that some people on this list have
> a too 
> uncritical attitude towards Heidegger. He's very important
> philosopher 
> without any doubt. In the history of philosophy he had an important
> 
> influence, "Sein und Zeit" influenced Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and
> last but not 
> least the poststructuralists. He's also the link betwenn Husserl's 
> phenomenology and contemporary philosophies. 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", it
> changed from 
> "Sein" to "Seyn", and the "Ge-stell" became a metaphor for his
> mystical but 
> not critical attitude towards the modern world and technology. For
> me his 
> mysticism after the war and his silence about Auschwitz cannot be
> separated 
> from each other.
> kwp


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