Heidegger

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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