The bizarre Nazi book craze

[Richard Ryan]

Dreyfus begs "for brainwashing ideology to take over the population or
masses"?  I've been reading and listening to Dreyfus for years,
studied with one of his leading students (Charles Guignon) and I've
never heard anything remotely like that.  Perhaps you could cite some
some specific texts?

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Michael F <mff8785 at gmail.com> wrote:
> No.  The most famous name, and the longest tenured Philosophy prof at
> UC Berkeley, Prof. Hubert Dreyfus, and the Chair of the Philosophy
> Department at Harvard, Prof. Sean Dorrance Kelley, are staunch
> Heideggerians.  Like many in the West, they prescribe to a line of
> thought that not just permits, but begs for brainwashing ideology to
> take over the population or masses.  I heard them speak last week and
> was quite astonished by what I heard(and also by what I have read by
> the two of them).  "We" the good citizens are too busy going after Leo
> Strauss and Carl Schmitt, who in fact try to warn us of impending
> "nihilism".
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>>
>> Harvard and Berkeley soon to be taken over by Nazis?
>>
>> OMFG!
>>
>> On 18.03.2011 17:42, Michael F wrote:
>>>
>>> Nazism is popular for the same reasons Martin Heidegger is consider
>>> the philosopher par excellence at some of our "Top
>>> Universities":Harvard and UC Berkeley- NIHILISM...
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
>>> <lorentzen at hotmail.de>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There's obviously a strong affinity of Nazi culture and the English
>>>> mentality.
>>>>
>>>> And, of course, vice versa.
>>>>
>>>> Or, as Carl Schmitt (cf. Glossarium) had it:
>>>>
>>>> "The German anglophilia was one of the main reasons for Hitler's rise".
>>>>
>>>> KFL
>>>>
>>>> On 17.03.2011 15:37, Dave Monroe wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12752501
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>



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