Derrida's Daddy, Herr Doktor Heidegger

[Joel Katz]

many of the core concepts that later appear in 'being and time' were readily 
available to the average german wheelwright or knacker since the turn of the 
century--and lot of them pop up almost fully formed (minus the philosophese 
and the gerunds) in the brownshirt literature of the 20s, very clearly in 
the death-and-slaughter fetishes of ernst junger.  anybody who thinks 
heidegger's philosophy wasn't providing official academic assent for mass 
murder and sacrifice ought to have their head examined.

look at the self-regard of these piddling, mediocre men.  heidegger, like 
he's putting cookies back into a jar, alters the telos of being itself to 
justify his mistake, while derrida abstracts nazi horror to avoid simply 
having to admit a misreading.  meanwhile, had derrida actually confronted 
and tried to come to terms with his mistake, it would have been the first 
genuinely philosophical investigation of his fucking life.

the affinity between lefty pomos and reactionaries couldn't be more clear.  
one group throws meaning to the wolves as a game, and the other chews and 
swallows, entirely in earnest.







>From: jolly <jollyrogerx99 at yahoo.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Derrida's Daddy, Herr Doktor  Heidegger
>Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:22:50 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>Heidegger, who in Sein und Zeit had spoken much of resolutely facing death, 
>joined the Nazis after Hitler came to power and, as Rektor of his 
>university, delivered an inaugural address which, fortunately for him, is 
>not widely read. If, as he now says, he soon abandoned Nazism, it is the 
>more remarkable that his resolve was kept so quiet that even today many 
>remain unconvinced.
>- Existentialism; Kaufmann, p. 47
>
>Professor Richard Wolin and other researches now believe Heidegger was 
>dedicated to the National Socialist Party, indifferent to how Hitler ruled 
>Germany.
>
>Though [Richard] Wolin's grievance with Derrida is not at issue in 
>"Heidegger's Children," one can't help feeling that, indirectly, it is 
>being reprised. the heart of the controversy was Wolin's accusation that 
>Derrida had tailored his "far-fetched and illogical" opinions about 
>Heidegger's Nazism to dodge an important question: by embracing the 
>legendary German thinker's philosophy, had Derrida and other radical 
>postmodern leftists accepted the core of Heidegger's dubious politics as 
>well?
>- "Heidegger's Children": Sins of the Father; reviewed by James Ryerson, 
>New York Times on the Web Book Review; December 21, 2001
>
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>
>http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/faye.html
>"Further, Faye shows that the famous word Dekonstruktion was first used in 
>a Nazi psychiatry journal edited by the cousin of Hermann Göring, and that 
>the word Logozentrismus was coined (for denunciatory purposes) in the 1920s 
>by the protofascist thinker Ludwig Klages. In short, sections of French 
>and, more recently, American academic discourse in the "human sciences" 
>have been dominated for decades by a terminology originating not in 
>Heidegger but first of all in the writings of Nazi scribblers, recycled 
>through Latin Quarter Heideggerians. Faye zeroes in with surgical skill on 
>the evasions of those, particularly those on the left, for whom the 
>"greatest philosopher" of the century of Auschwitz happened to be--as a 
>mere detail--a Nazi."
>
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