FWD: Sins of the father By Yosef Dan

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Sins of the father

By Yosef Dan

"Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans
Jonas and Herbert Marcuse" by Richard Wolin, Princeton
University Press, 276 pages, $29.95

One of the oddest and most difficult chapters in the
tortured history of Jewish philosophers in the 20th century
is the prolonged and determined connection between the
greatest Jewish intellectuals and some of the leading Nazi
and fascist thinkers in that century.  It is a fact that
some of the key figures in the European intellectual world
who supported, in various ways, fascist and Nazi
totalitarianism worked in an environment where Jewish
figures were present, sometimes in a dominant way.  This is
especially significant with respect to figures who had a
great deal of influence on European thought and competed in
their support for Nazism (even if not explicitly) and
neither accepted criticism nor expressed self-criticism
about their support for the European fascist movements.

It is an excruciatingly painful episode, so extensive that
it cannot be ignored.
Several times during the period after World War II, Jewish
students and associates of figures who identified - to one
degree or another - with Nazism failed to disassociate
themselves fully from their teachers, who were tainted by
anti- Semitism and enthusiasm for cruel totalitarianism.

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