FWD: Sins of the father By Yosef Dan

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 + in a way this goes also for paul celan who loved heidegger's philosophy, met 
 him and was disappointed that the great man never said something like "sorry!": 
 see celan's poem "todtnauberg" (which is the name of the swabian village where 
 heidegger had his hdt-cabin) where he expresses his hope "for a thinker's/   
 coming/ word" which nevertheless never came. hannah forgave that, too. 


                           "TODTNAUBERG 

                        arnika, augentrost, der
                        trunk aus den brunnen mit dem
                        sternwürfel drauf,

                        in der 
                        hütte,

                        die in das buch
                        - wessen namen nahms auf
                        vor dem meinen? -,   
                        die in dies buch 
                        geschriebene zeile von
                        einer hoffnung, heute,
                        auf eines denkenden
                        kommendes
                        wort
                        im herzen,

                        waldwasen, uneingeebnet,
                        orchis und orchis, einzeln,

                        krudes, später, im fahren,
                        deutlich,

                        der uns fährt, der mensch,
                        der's mit anhört,

                        die halb-
                        beschrittenen knüppel-
                        pfade im hochmoor,
 
                        feuchtes,
                        viel."
           
 

 kfl *


kwp schrieb:
  
>  
> 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.
>
> continues at
>
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> kwp
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